92 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



next day, about two o'clock, I found my friend 

 in bed, covered with some pungent salve, and 

 swearing lie had got it. His man-servant told 

 me he had been having hot-bath after hot-bath 

 until he was parboiled. As for myself, I went 

 and had a good bathe in the river, and neither 

 of us were any the worse, though it took several 

 days to convince my companion he was all 

 right. 



Some time after I went up alone to this farm- 

 house again, and the mother told me all the 

 family had generally this particular disorder 

 once a year, and that it was a very common 

 thing in Brittany. 



