This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... alarming, indeed, was it that he appeared about to be suffocated. His mother became alarmed, and sent for one or two of her neighbours. These had never seen any one, particularly a boy, in such a state before; and they likewise knew he had been as merry at play the previous evening as any boy in the village. "I knaw ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... alarming, indeed, was it that he appeared about to be suffocated. His mother became alarmed, and sent for one or two of her neighbours. These had never seen any one, particularly a boy, in such a state before; and they likewise knew he had been as merry at play the previous evening as any boy in the village. "I knaw what I would deah," said one of the invited neighbours, a short, noisy woman, of a decided turn of mind, who had been brought up thirty miles more to the north. "If Richard were my lad I wadn't tay him teah a doctor at all. It's clear eneaf what fee ails." "What is the matter with him, do you think?" said the anxious mother. "I've nae doot at all 'at the lad's bewitched," replied the knowing dame. "It's a very cruel thing, if it is so, done it that may," replied the mother; "and to tell you the truth, our James and me were saying the same thing very lately; but what can one do? I don't like to go to them that practise the black art; it seems to me almost like going to the devil for advice." "Wiah," said the other, "the lad's yer ain; deah as ye like. All I've gotten to say, I've said already. But ye're sadly oot if ye think it rang to gang teah a wise man or a wise woman to get t'lad made week It is not ye 'at wod be ganing teah the devil for advice, but it's them 'at's dean it 'at gan thither. Here's naething 'at's good comes fra the divil, anyhow; an' if ye get him made weel by ganing, I sud say ye were deahing reight eneaf. But it's nane o' my business." "If I thought there was the least chance of his being made well, I would not hesitate a moment; but I don't know how to go about it, nor in fact where to go," said Rachel Everton. "There's a woman ...
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