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.

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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.

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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.

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