He Lay On The Mat In The Corner Of My Room Most
Of The Afternoon, And I Got A Great Many More Words From Him.
The
house-master, who is the Kocho of Sarufuto, paid me a courteous
visit, and in the evening sent
To say that he would be very glad of
some medicine, for he was "very ill and going to have fever." He
had caught a bad cold and sore throat, had bad pains in his limbs,
and was bemoaning himself ruefully. To pacify his wife, who was
very sorry for him, I gave him some "Cockle's Pills" and the
trapper's remedy of "a pint of hot water with a pinch of cayenne
pepper," and left him moaning and bundled up under a pile of
futons, in a nearly hermetically sealed room, with a hibachi of
charcoal vitiating the air. This morning when I went and inquired
after him in a properly concerned tone, his wife told me very
gleefully that he was quite well and had gone out, and had left 25
sen for some more of the medicines that I had given him, so with
great gravity I put up some of Duncan and Flockhart's most pungent
cayenne pepper, and showed her how much to use. She was not
content, however, without some of the "Cockles," a single box of
which has performed six of those "miraculous cures" which rejoice
the hearts and fill the pockets of patent medicine makers!
I. L. B.
LETTER XXXIX
A Welcome Gift - Recent Changes - Volcanic Phenomena - Interesting
Tufa Cones - Semi-strangulation - A Fall into a Bear-trap - The
Shiraoi Ainos - Horsebreaking and Cruelty.
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