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THE WATER BABIES
- Oil of wormwood.
- Water of Nile.
- Capers.
- Good wine (but there was none to be got).
- The water of a smith's forge.
- Hops.
- Ambergris.
- Mandrake pillows.
- Dormouse fat.
- Hares' ears.
- Starvation.
- Camphor.
- Salts and senna.
- Musk.
- Opium.
- Strait-waistcoats.
- Bullyings.
- Bumpings.
- Blisterings.
- Bleedings.
- Bucketings with cold water.
- Knockings down.
- Kneeling on his chest till they broke it in, etc., etc.; after the mediæval or monkish method: but that would not do. Bumpterhausen's blue follicles stuck there still.
Then—
4. Coaxing.
- Kissing.
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