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A DOSE; OR. WHAT DID sHE TAKE

Ellen, you have been. out
Well, know have
TO the Kings Head2
No, John, ne n but no matter, you'll be
troubled no more with my drinking
What do you mean 2
II mean what say, Jthn,' said the wife
looking very serious and speaking very sol.
EMMY and deliberately. and with a strong
emphasis on every word 'You-will-le-
troubled -no--more-- with--my- drinking
| hPye took if at last. .,.s..,,.,.,...-
band, desperately tossing bis arms aloft, as
when all is lost. Iknew it + and leaving
one coat Zap ia.the hand of his wife, who
yaiuly attempted to detain him, he rushed
from the room. sprang down three stairs at
time, ran along the passage, and, without
his hat, or stick, dashed out Of the street
door, sweeping from the step two ragged lit
tle girls, quarter loaf, basin of trcacle
and baby But he never stepped to see if
the children we're hnrt or even to see if the
infant was drippod with gore or molasses.
Away he ran, like a rapid deg, straight for
word down the street needless alike Of por-
tors load, basket and butchers tray
DO that again, gowled placard man as
he recovered the pole aud board which had
/ been knocked from his shoulder.
Mind whe@c you're going, bawled hawk
cit, as be picked up his scattered wares,
while dandy, suddenly thrust into q ken
mel, launched after The runner one Of those
verbal missiyes, which are said to return,
like the boomerang. to those who launched
them.
But on, on scampered the teetotalcr, heed
less Of all impediment--on he secured, like
ho Camilla to the shop numbered 240,
with the red, blue,and green bottles IN the
window--the chemist and druggsst-into
which be started. up to the little bald man
At the desk, with bare breath to grasp out
MY wife Apbison-pump 7
Vegetable Or mineral \ inquired the sur.
geon apothecary, With the utmost profess
sional GOODNESS
Both--all fts-laudanum-arsen
cxalic acid-corrosive sublimity- and the
teetotaler was about to add pine apple rum
among the poisous, when the doctor stopped
him
Nor
But remembering the symptoms over
night. the teetotaler vontured to say, on the
strength of his dream, that che had turned
all sorts Of colors, like rainbow, and swell
ing almost as big as a house
/ There is not moment to hose, said Es-
culapius, aud accordingly clapped on his bat
and arming himself with he necessary ap-
paratus-a sort Of elephaatic syringe, with a
very long trunk he set off on trct, guided
by the teetotaler to unpoison the rash aud
ill.fatea baechanalian, Mrs Burrage,
Now, when the teetotaler. with the medi
| cal maa at his heels, arrived at his own
house, Mrs Burrage was still in her bed
| room. which was great.eonvenience. fer DO
fore she could account for the intrusion Of !
stranger NAY. even without knowing how
Il was done, she found herself seated IN ~
easy chair and when she attempted 80 e.
postulate, she found herself choking with th,
lube Of something which was certainly mel
Their maccaroni nor stick -liquerice, nor ye
peppermint
Ts account forthis presipitaney, the *
ageerated representation Of her husband
mus. Be borne in mind and if bis wife dix
NOT exhibit all thedolphin like colors that b
had described-if she Was not quite 50 blue
green. yellow on black IS be had painte,
Ter. the apothRcary made sure she Woul,
soon 81. and consequently went 10 WorI
without delay, when delays was 80 danger
Gus
q Mrs Burrage, however, was not uoma
q submit quietly 20 disagreeable operatic
against her own consent 50 with ayigorou
! | kick and pash a The same time, she cor
trived d rid herself 1t once Of the docto
and hisinstrument and indignantly demand
q ded to know the meaning IF the assault upo
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