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The Merry Men

CHAPTER IV
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How clear and airy is the sound! The nerves are harmonised and quieted; the mind attuned to silence; and observe how easily and regularly beats the heart! Your unenlightened doctor would see nothing in these sensations; and yet you yourself perceive they are a part of health .-- Did you remember your cinchona this morning?
Good.

Cinchona also is a work of nature; it is, after all, only the bark of a tree which we might gather for ourselves if we lived in the locality .-- What a world is this! Though a professed atheist, I delight to bear my testimony to the world.

Look at the gratuitous remedies and pleasures that surround our path! The river runs by the garden end, our bath, our fishpond, our natural system of drainage.

There is a well in the court which sends up sparkling water from the earth's very heart, clean, cool, and, with a little wine, most wholesome.

The district is notorious for its salubrity; rheumatism is the only prevalent complaint, and I myself have never had a touch of it.
I tell you--and my opinion is based upon the coldest, clearest processes of reason--if I, if you, desired to leave this home of pleasures, it would be the duty, it would be the privilege, of our best friend to prevent us with a pistol bullet.' One beautiful June day they sat upon the hill outside the village.


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