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Gripeall's iron safe. If she'd a-had my Palmyra 

 sarve she'd be still alive, Mrs Shaver, now ; 'stead 

 of that, the land -crabs have eaten her. Another 

 example, ladies : Sally Brags, Miss Sally Brags to 

 Portsmouth. You know Portsmouth, Providence, 

 where the pretty gals grow ; some folk do say they're 

 prettier to Baltimore won't say they ain't matter 

 of taste, pure matter of taste ; but Miss Sally Brags, 

 ladies, had the lockjaw couldn't say a word ; took 

 a box of my Palmyra sarve ladies, two dollars a box 

 by retail her tongue now goes clap-clap-clap like any 

 steam-mill. Famous cure for lockjaw ! " 



During this unceasing flow of words, the Yankee 

 had found time to drive a capital trade ; his merchan- 

 dise of all kinds was rapidly disappearing, and the 

 more the backwoodsmen laughed, the faster flowed 

 the dollars into the pedlar's pouch. It was most 

 diverting to observe the looks of the purchasers of 

 the Palmyra ointment, as they first smelled at it and 

 then shook their heads, as if in doubt whether they 

 were not duped. 



" Wonderful stuff ! " cried the Yankee with im- 

 perturbable gravity, and as if to reassure them. 

 " And capital coffee-pots," continued he to a leather- 

 jerkined Missouri man, who had taken up one of the 

 latter, and was examining it. " I'll warrant 'em of 

 the best description, and no mistake. Wonderful 

 stuff this Palmyra sarve, came direct from Moscow, 

 where the Archbishop of Abyssinia had brought it, 



