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might, when every one of his joints was cracking 

 under the force applied. 



" All no use your callin' out ! " screamed the pedlar, 

 as he stuck the salved rag upon the ebony hide of 

 the patient. " Better hold yer tongue. Ain't you 

 too lucky to have met with me at a time when all 

 the doctors in the world the Browns, and Hossacks, 

 and Sillimans could not have done you a cent's 

 worth of good? All their drugs would have had 

 no more effect than a ladleful of pea-soup. You 

 ought to be rejoicin' in yer luck, instead of screamin' 

 like a wounded catamount. Keep still, will you? 

 There, that'll do. Many thanks, gentlemen ; I thank 

 you in the name of this senseless crittur. That's 

 enough. No cause for complaint, man ! " continued 

 he, as he stuck a second plaster on the negro's foot. 

 "All safe enough when Jared Bundle is there with 

 his Palmyra sarve. You be the first as was ever 

 know'd to scream after havin' one smell of that 

 precious 'intment. And I tell you what it is, my 

 man, if both your black legs had been broken clean 

 off, and were swimmin' down the Mississippi half 

 rotten ay, or if they had just come out of the jaws 

 of an alligator, and you were to stick 'em on, and 

 plaster them up with this 'intment, you may take 

 my word, Jared Bundle's word, that they'd grow to 

 your body again the flesh would become your flesh, 

 and the bone your bone, as sure as I am now 

 here." And he looked round at his auditors with 



