Henry (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1795. Excerpt: ... this moment fixed his attention upon a fmoak ing baton of frefli milk-porridge. Chapter III. Fortune begins to smile upon our Here. A LEXANDER Kinloch having visited his patient at die mill, called at the cottage, and. made so favourable a report of his own wonderful performances, and the good night's rest that he had procured for the wounded man, that little doubt was now entertained of his speedy recovery. In fact, good fortune, and the critical interposition of Henry, had done more for him than all the art of Alexander, for the knife had simply glanced upon Ms ribs, and made a flesh wound, neither deep nor dangerous, and the blood which it drew, though formidable in appearance, was eventually no more than the young miller in his state of inflammation could well spare, with profit to his habit and constitution. Kinloch delivered a message from Doctor Cawdle, desiring Henry to come to him, as he ' was .Wits yet confined to his chamber; he also repeated his prognostication that Madam Jemima was in a hasty decline;--M Say you so," quoth Ezekiel, " why then she is in the properest place to meet with good advice: her spouse no doubt will exert all his skill in her behalf."-- V Her spouse indeed " cried Kinloch, " poor creature I what can he do ? I had prepar'd a medicine for her, compounded of specifics sovereign in her case, which is neither more nor less than an inordinate use of spirituous liquors acting on an atrabilious habit.'.'-- " Then what can save her but the muzzle: " resumed Daw. --" What can save her " echoed the medical understrapper, " my rer miedy cou'd have sav'd her; a compound of all antidotes against hard drinking; a butt to sheath the spicula of intoxicating potations. Know you not that there is a secret in nature, by the application of which men can swallow soli...