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between her lips (her jaws all the while fall- locked) but 
it all run out. With this, however, they rubbed her 
throat and jaws, and continued the trial to make her 
fwallow, rubbing her throat with the water that run out of 
her mouth for three mornings together. On the third 
morning during this operation, fhe cried, Give me more 
water; when all that remained of the bottle was given 
her, which fhe fwallowed with eafe. Thefewere the only 
words fhe fpoke for almoft a year, and fire continued to 
mutter fome more (which her parents underflood) for 
twelve or fourteen days, after which fhe fpoke none, and 
rejected, as formerly, all forts of nourifhment and drink, 
till fome time in the month of July 1765, when a filler 
of hers thought, by fome figns that fhe made, that fire 
wanted her jaws opened; which her father, not without 
violence, got done, by putting the handle of a horn-fpoon 
between her teeth. She faid then intelligibly, Give me 
a drink; and drank with eafe, and all at one draught, 
about an Englifh pint of water. Her father then afked 
her, Why fhe would not make fome figns, although fhe 
could not fpeak, when fhe wanted a drink? She an- 
fwered, why lhould fire when fhe had no defire. At 
this period they kept the jaws afunder with a bit of wood, 
imagining fhe got her fpeech by her jaws being opened, 
and continued them thus wedged for about twenty days, 
3 though 
