Copy 1, Volume 5

The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. with memoirs of his life and writings / by R. Anderson.

  • Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
Date:
1806
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Credit: The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. with memoirs of his life and writings / by R. Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sheet-anchor; for, if so be as he had not cleared your stow¬ age of the water you had taken in at your upper works, and lightened your veins, d’ye see, by taking away some of your blood, adad! you had driven before the gale, and never been brought up in this world again, d’ye see.’ ‘ What, then, you would persuade me,’ replied the patient, ethat the only way to save my life was to shed my precious blood ? Look ye, friend, it shall not be lost blood to me.—I take you all to witness, that there surgeon, or apothecary, or farrier, or dog-doctor, or whatsoever he may be, has rob¬ bed me of the balsam of life :—he has not left so much blood in my body as would fatten a starved flea.—O ! that there was a lawyer here to serve him with a siserari. Then fixing his eyes upon Ferrret, he proceeded :—4 An’t you a limb of the law, friend ?—No, I cry you mercy, you look more like a sliow-Vnan or a conjurer.’ Ferret, nettled at this address, answered,—c It would be well for you, that I could conjure a little common sense into that numskull of yours.’ ‘ If I want that commodity,’ rejoined the ’squire, ‘ I must go to another market, I trow.—You legerdemain men be more like to conjure the money from our pockets than sense into our skulls.—Vor my own part, I was once cheated of vorty good shillings by one of your broother cups- and-balls.’ In all probability he would have descended to particulars, had he not been seized with a return of his nausea, which obliged him to call for a bumper of brandy. This remedy being swallowed, the tumult in Iris stomach subsided. He desired he might be put to bed without de¬ lay, and that half a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon might, in a couple of hours, be dressed for his supper. He was accordingly led oft' the scene by the landlady and her daughter; and Mr. Ferret had just time to observe the fellow was a composition, in which he did not know whether knave or fool most predominated, when the master returned from the stable. He had taken off his helmet, and now disr played a very engaging countenance. His age did not seem to exceed thirty : he was tall, and seemingly robust; his face long and oval, his nose aquiline, his mouth fur-