Beginned

This morning I have beginned a remedy which has been strongly recommended to me, and which they say will certainly cure my cough (God grant) that is Ass’s Milk.

And in the midst o’ my eating and drinking, ’cause last night I was right there with them, I was one of the tourisses too, like the best o’ them! in the midst o’ my eating a flying fish steak, I had was to wonder, ‘How many o’ we back home have a piece o’ this nice fish in their mouth, this morning?’ But the story running-’way from me. I beginned by telling you how I got there.

Toadman puts a pill in my mouth and makes me eat it if they’re goin’ somewhere and they’re gonna leave me. Tastes bad. I don’t like it, so I started spitting them out. I can’t amember how long since I beginned to spit them out.