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FANCY DISEASES.
“Diseases is very various,” said Mrs. Partington, as
she returned from a street-door conversation with Dr.
Bolus. “The Doctor tells me that poor old Mrs. Haze
has got two buckles on her lungs! It is dreadful to
think of, I declare. The diseases is so various! One way
we hear of people's dying of hermitage of the lungs;
another way of the brown creatures; here they tell us
of the elementary canal being out of order, and there
about tonsors of the throat; here we hear of neurology
in the head, there of an embargo; one side of us we hear
of men being killed by getting a pound of tough beef in
the sarcofagus, and there another kills himself by discovering
his jocular vein. Things change so, that I
declare I don't know how to subscribe for any disease
now-a-days. New names and new nostrils takes the
place of the old, and I might as well throw my old herb-bag
away.”
Fifteen minutes afterwards Isaac had that herb-bag for
a target, and broke three squares of glass in the cellar
window in trying to hit it, before the old lady knew what
he was about. She did n't mean exactly what she said.
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