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64 THE MAN IN POSSESSION. my stomich that’s bad, not to spake of ivery bone in my body achin’ for all the world as if I'd been battered with a rolling pin.’ “<«Put out your tongue,’ he sez again. ‘¢¢ And shure howd I be describing my symptoms, sor, I sez, ‘if I was to hang my tongue out o my mouth like a dog that’s nadin’a dhrink?’ I sez. ‘‘Well he sez something that sounded like a bad word or two, and he laves my tongue alone, and takes my wrist and looks at his big gowld watch for all the world as solemn as a judge whos afther condemning a fellow crayture, and there he stands, looking first at me and then at the watch. ‘Your pulse is moighty quick,’ he sez. ‘You must kape quiet and I ’ll send you some powders. They ’Il do you good.’ Well, if youll belave me, Miss Kate, he went away, and prisintly the powders came, andI saw written on them, ‘The Emetic. One to be taken immadiately and the other one hour after—if no effect.’ Well, I took one, and shurel was that sick for all the wurrld as if 1 was crossing from Dublin to Holyhead. ‘Well,’ sez I, ‘it’s mighty little use giving a midicine that wont stay five minnits on a poor sick craythurs stomich. How- ever, I'll try the other one; fair play’s a jule, and having had a docther, shure ‘tis but right to take his advice.’ Now may the divil fly away wid me, Miss Kate, if it’s not true what I’m tellin’ ye. I took the other powder, and shure I couldnt be kapin’ that down one minnit, lave alone five. And that’s all the good /hka# docther did me. I've niver had another.” COMicloe (Sri C(O)