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udder (vipei) in the flraw had flung her by the finger. 
I was by at, the time, and her finger bled indeed. 
Pliw woman s hufband, who ferved thatcher, flew to 
the place in an inflant, and turning up the flraw, 
found a flow- worm, and killed him diredlly. I know- 
ing they generally lie in pairs, ordered the man to look 
farther, for that afluredly he had a companion, and 
accordingly the other was quickly found. "During this 
buflle, the woman’s ailment was quite forgot, and fhe 
fell to work again, as if nothing had happened. My 
wife, indeed, about an hour afterwards, hearing of the 
accident, dreffed the wound with falad oil, and caufed 
the woman to drink two or three fpoonfulls of the 
fame ; but as this was done fo long after the fadl, I 
looked upon it as doing of nothing. 
The fecond accident happened in the beginning of 
July 1754, to the hufband of the above-mentioned 
woman, John Seymour, of this town; who in re- 
moving the ground-pinning of fome houfes, which 
had been burnt down, and which I had the care of 
rebuilding, cried out, that he was flung by a blind- 
worm, for fo they call them here. 1 was by, and 
faw the reptile flick to his thumb ; for the man lifted 
it fome diflance from the ground, before it quitted its 
hold. He was bit indeed ; for the pundtures appeared 
very plain, and in a very dangerous place, juft upon 
the tendon, on the infide of his thumb. The poor 
fellow was fadly frightened ; he looked as pale as 
death, and faid, He fhould drop down dead in a mi- 
nute. I fmiled, and told him, as much as his wife 
did two or three years before. Upon this he took heart, 
fell again to his work, and heard no more of his acci- 
dent. 
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