416 NO MOKE, THANK YOU. 



on a young pupil : the master will finish him ; so he 

 will a customer, if he has much to do with him. I 

 can point out many capable masters, but I love to 

 notice particularly transcendent merit ! 



What information I have got in such matters as I 

 have alluded to has not, I can assure my readers, 

 been gained free of expense : it is a medicine I have 

 been forced to swallow : some of the pills were, I 

 allow, very nicely silvered, others gilt ; but unfor- 

 tunately, it was my silver and gold that I swallowed. 

 The phials were very neatly tied down with crimson 

 paper, and the labels beautifully written : this did not 

 make the contents the less nauseous. I soon became 

 intractable, and would swallow no more : and now, 

 though not a M. D., former dosing has rendered me 

 so aware of kind intentions, that the horse pharmaco- 

 polist who could persuade me his bolus was a preserved 

 cherry, or his dark-coloured draught Chateau Margaux, 

 must know something of his business. 



If, from what I have written, I may so far have 

 aroused the suspicions of my reader as to prevent his 

 being improperly dosed, my time has not been ill- 

 employed. If I have induced him to avoid the char- 

 latan, and apply only to the honourable and able 

 practitioner, I have done some good: and should he 

 be so unfortunate as to unwittingly apply to the for- 

 mer, if I have shown him enough of the appearance 

 of his drugs as to induce him to refuse a deleterious 

 draught, it is well also ; but far better is it if I can 

 persuade him not to trust to such knowledge, and in 

 all circumstances to apply only to such men as will 

 render any knowledge of the iniquitous practices of 

 rogues uncalled for ; and men of honour and integrity 

 are to be found in all professions, and even in trade. 



