! Like enough; and sold to the poor; and that's what
the poor will come to if they listen to such revolutionizing villains.
Sausages! Donkey sausages!" (spitting)--"'T is bad as eating one
another; perfect cannibalism."

Leonard, who had been thrown into grave thought by the history of Sprott
and the village genius, now pressing the parson's hand, asked permission
to wait on him before Mr. Dale quitted London; and was about to
withdraw, when the parson, gently detaining him, said, "No; don't leave
me yet, Leonard,--I have so much to ask you, and to talk about. I shall
be at leisure shortly. We are just now going to call on a relation
of the squire's, whom you must recollect, I am sure,--Captain
Higginbotham--Barnabas Higginbotham. He is very poorly."

"And I am sure he would take it kind in you to call too," said the
squire, with great good-nature.

LEONARD.--"Nay, sir, would not that be a great liberty?"

SQUIRE.--"Liberty! To ask a poor sick gentleman how he is? Nonsense. And
I say, Sir, perhaps, as no doubt you have been living in town, and know
more of newfangled notions than I do,--perhaps you can tell us whether
or not it is all humbug,--that new way of doctoring people."

LEONARD.--"What new way, sir. There are so many."

SQUIRE.--"Are there? Folks in London do look uncommonly sickly. But
my poor cousin (he was never a Solomon) has got hold, he says, of a
homely--homely--What's the word, Parson?"

PARSON. "Homoeopathist."

SQUIRE.--"That's it. You see the captain went to live with one Sharpe
Currie, a relation who had a great deal of money, and very little
liver;--made the one, and left much of the other in Ingee, you
understand. The captain had expectations of the money. Very natural, I
dare say; but Lord, sir, what do you think has happened? Sharpe Currie
has done him. Would not die, Sir; got back his liver, and the captain
has lost his own. Strangest thing you ever heard. And then the
ungrateful old Nabob has dismissed the captain, saying, 'He can't bear
to have invalids about him;' and is going to marry, and I have no doubt
will have children by the dozen!"

PARSON.--"It was in Germany, at one of the Spas, that Mr. Currie
recovered; and as he had the selfish inhumanity to make the captain
go through a course of waters simultaneously with himself, it has
so chanced that the same waters that cured Mr. Currie's liver have
destroyed Captain Higginbotham's. An English homoeopathic physician,
then stayin