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"No more of your doctoring for me!" cried the grum Esther; "no more of
your quiddities in a healthy family, say I! Here was I doing well,
only a little out of sorts with over instructing the young, and you
dos'd me with a drug that hangs about my tongue, like a pound weight
on a humming-bird's wing!"
"Is the medicine out?" drily demanded Ishmael: "it must be a rare dose
that gives a heavy feel to the tongue of old Eester!"
"Friend," continued the Doctor, waving his hand for the angry wife to
maintain the peace, "that it cannot perform all that is said of it,
the very charge of good Mrs. Bush is a sufficient proof. But to speak
of the absent Asa. There is doubt as to his fate, and there is a
proposition to solve it. Now, in the natural sciences truth is always
a desideratum; and I confess it would seem to be equally so in the
present case of domestic uncertainty, which may be called a vacuum
where according to the laws of physic, there should exist some pretty
palpable proofs of materiality.


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