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Death and Doctor Hornbook (第3/4页)
i threw a hrow at ane; wi' less, i'm sure, i've hundreds slain; but deil-ma-care, it just play'd dirl on the bane, but did nae mair. “hornbook was by, wi' ready art, an' had sae fortify'd the part, that when i looked to my dart, it was sae blunt, fient haet o't wad hae pierc'd the heart of a kail-runt. “i drew my scythe in sic a fury, i near-hand cowpit wi' my hurry, but yet the bauld apothecary withstood the shock; i might as weel hae tried a quarry o' hard whin rock. “ev'n them he a get attended, altho' their face he ne'er had kend it, just—in a kail-blade, a it, as soon's he smells 't, baith their disease, and what will mend it, at once he tells 't. “and then, a' doctor's saws an' whittles, of a' dimensions, shapes, ales, a' kind o' boxes, mugs, an' bottles, he's sure to hae; their latin names as fast he rattles as a b c. “calces o' fossils, earths, and trees; true sal-marinum o' the seas; the farina of beans an' pease, he has't iy; aqua-fontis, what you please, he tent ye. “forbye some new, unon ons, urinus spiritus of s; or mite-horn shavings, filings, scrapings, distill'd per se; sal-alkali o' midge-tail clippings, and mony mae.” “waes me for johnie ged's hole now,” h i, “if that thae news be true! his braw calf-ward whare gowans grew, sae white and bonie, nae doubt they'll rive it wi' the plew; they'll ruin johnie!” the creature grain'd an eldritch laugh,