Howsomever, there's not much risk of it, as they are obliged to make an example of him, there having been so much destruction of property that way lately.' 'I mean,' she explained, 'that I want to touch him for a charm, a cure of an affliction, by the advice of a man who has proved the virtue of the remedy.' 'O yes, miss! Now I understand.

I've had such people come in past years.

But it didn't strike me that you looked of a sort to require blood-turning.

What's the complaint?
The wrong kind for this, I'll be bound.' 'My arm.' She reluctantly showed the withered skin.
'Ah--'tis all a-scram!' said the hangman, examining it.
'Yes,' said she.
'Well,' he continued, with interest, 'that is the class o' subject, I'm bound to admit! I like the look of the place; it is truly as suitable for the cure as any I ever saw.

'Twas a knowing-man that sent 'ee, whoever he was.' 'You can contrive for me all that's necessary ?' she said breathlessly.
'You should really have gone to the governor of the jail, and your doctor with 'ee, and given your name and address--that's how it used to be done, if I recollect.