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was going to dine with an old acquaintance, 

 a hearty and hospitable Norfolk farmer, 

 with another farmer in company, who was 

 shooting with me. The farmer complained 

 that he was much troubled with the scurv}^ 

 The old farmer said, *'I will cure you to a 

 certainty,'' and thus proceeded. 



" A few years ago, I was so terribly 

 afflicted with scurvy, that my whole body 

 nearly was one eruption. I had tried the 

 Lynn, Norwich, and Bury physicians, and 

 had even gone to London for advice, but 

 they none of them could cure me. Sitting 

 at my door, an old gipsey woman, hearing 

 me complain, told me she would cure me ; 

 for that she had cured hundreds. I told 

 her, I would try her medicine, if she would 

 tell me of what it was made, and that I 

 would feed her, and give her a warm birth 

 and clean straw in my stable, and five gui- 

 neas, provided she performed a cure. The 

 bargain was made, I took her medicine, 

 and in about three weeks every scale I had 

 on my body fell off. I was perfectly 

 cured, and never have had it again to any 

 extent ; for, when I see the smallest erup- 



