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CROTCHET CASTLE.
MR. CHAINMAIL.
Build a great dining-hall: endow it with beef and ale, and hang the hall round with arms to defend the provisions.
MR. HENBANE.
Found a toxicological institution for trying all poisons and antidotes. I myself have killed a frog twelve times and brought him to life eleven; but the twelfth time he died. I have a phial of the drug, which killed him, in my pocket, and shall not rest till I have discovered its antidote.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
I move that the last speaker be dispossessed of his phial, and that it be forthwith thrown into the Thames.
MR. HENBANE.
How, sir? my invaluable, and, in the present state of human knowledge, infallible poison?
