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A Man for the Ages

CHAPTER I
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In a smaller bladder he carried his tobacco.
Farther on the boy got a sore throat.

Sarah bound a slice of pork around it and Samson built a camp by the roadside, in which, after a good fire was started, they gave him a hemlock sweat.

This they did by steeping hemlock in pails of hot water and, while the patient sat in a chair by the fireside, a blanket was spread about him and pinned close to his neck.

Under the blanket they put the pails of steaming hemlock tea.

After his sweat and a day and night in bed, with a warm fire burning in front of the shanty, Joe was able to resume his seat in the wagon.


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