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[As related to the author of this book by Mr. McWilliams, a pleasant New
York gentleman whom the said author met by chance on a journey.]
Well, to go back to where I was before I digressed to explain to you how
that frightful and incurable disease, membranous croup,[Diphtheria D.W.]
was ravaging the town and driving all mothers mad with terror, I called
Mrs. McWilliams's attention to little Penelope, and said:
"
Darling, I wouldn't let that child be chewing that pine stick if I were
you."
"
Precious, where is the harm in it?" said she, but at the same time
preparing to take away the stick--for women cannot receive even the most
palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
I replied:
"Love, it is notorious that pine is the least nutritious wood that a
child can eat."
My wife's hand paused, in the act of taking the stick, and returned
itself to her lap. She bridled perceptibly, and said:
"Hubby, you know better than that. You know you do. Doctors all say
that the turpentine in pine wood is good for weak back and the kidneys."
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