9/21 For instance, a 'salt-lick,' as your sweet Yankees call it--and set up an infirmary for foot and mouth disease. And better still, the baths, the baths, my dear. Only place your marble at the proper level, and twice a day you have the grand salubrious sparkling influx of ocean's self, self-filtered, and by its own operation permeated with a fine siliceous element. What foreign mud could compete with such a bath ?" "But supposing there should come too much of it," I said, "and wash both the baths and the bathers away ?" "Such an idea is ridiculous. It can be adjusted to a nicety. |