10 WILD DICK AND 34 cheering glass. It was particularly grateful on washing days; and she soon became convinced, that it tasted quite as well, on any other day of the week. There was a time, when she was unwilling that her neighbors should become acquainted with this disposition for liquor. She was then in the habit of indulging herself in the frequent use of tea, at all hours of the day. She kept it, in constant readiness, on the ypper slielf of the pantry closet. Upon a certain day, little Dick was taken so suddenly and seriously ill, that his father went 1 ( ‘ for -Dr. Diver. The child was unable to stand, and was so drowsy and sick at his stom- j ach, that the family were fearfhl bd had been g poisoned; and the more so, as he had been a seen, in the earlier part of the day, playing ft before the apothecary’s shop. Dr. Diver had recently procured a stomach-pump; and, as J he was quite willing to try it, the experiment was immediately and successfully made, upor.. the stomach of little Dick, who was speedily h relieved of rather more than half a pint of d strong milk punch. He stoutly denied, with f
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