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about her insides, hinting that she thought she 

 had been struck with the evil eye. Weel! ye 

 must know that I did na just remember what 

 the vade mecum prescribes for sich like a disease, 

 and as the medicine chest was made up, an 7 I did 

 na think it was worth while to unpack it, by way 

 of an experiment, I sent her negresship a good big 

 bottle o' stiff gin toddy, a trifle stronger than I 

 was then imbibing, and I reckon she found this 

 potent remedy so conducive to her feelings, that 

 early this morning she sent that ugly black hench- 

 man, of the neuter gender, with a mouthful of 

 compliments, and what I esteemed verra much 

 better, a basket of fine grafted mangoes as a pre- 

 sent to your humble servant; and that dark ill- 

 looking functionary informed me, in that queer 

 squeaky voice, peculiar to the third sex, that his mis- 

 tress was so much better for the clever Hackeem's 

 (doctor's) medicine, that she wanted to see him 

 again personally some time during the morning; 

 so ye see, boys, there is some good in the pro- 

 fession, after all, for ofttimes it gives us the 

 means and ways of ingratiating ourselves wi' the 

 fair sex, e'en though we are not, maybe, just so 

 young and smooth-skinned as we might ha' been. 

 Ugh! ugh! ugh!" 



"Well done, Bones," said I. u You have indeed 

 commenced the attack well, but the trail must be 



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