[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION 163/419
And by-and-by its little bark grows sharp and savage, and--confound the thing!--you find it is a wolf's whelp that you have got there, and he is gnawing in the breast where he has been nestling so long .-- The Poor Relation said that somebody's surrup was good for folks that were gettin' into a bad way .-- The landlady had heard of desperate cases cured by cherry-pictorial. Whiskey's the fellah,--said the young man John .-- Make it into punch, cold at dinner-time 'n' hot at bed-time.
I'll come up 'n' show you how to mix it.
Have n't any of you seen the wonderful fat man exhibitin' down in Hanover Street? Master Benjamin Franklin rushed into the dialogue with a breezy exclamation, that he had seen a great picter outside of the place where the fat man was exhibitin'.
Tried to get in at half-price, but the man at the door looked at his teeth and said he was more'n ten year old. It is n't two years,--said the young man John, since that fat fellah was exhibitin' here as the Livin' Skeleton.
Whiskey--that's what did it,--real Burbon's the stuff.
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