Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heavy boots was heard approaching, and she entered the room. “ Our friend has partaken too freely of thy sack, good dame,” said Zorastro. “ Well-a-day, he is not the first to do that,” said the woman complacently. “He wants me to cure him, as I do my Jan.” “ And how is that ? ” “Why, when he is troubled with the same complaint, I pick him up and put him to stand in the waterbutt till morning.” “A good cure indeed, dame,” laughed Zorastro. “ But leave this fellow to us, and we’ll see him to his chamber as we go to bed.” “ All right, good masters, and thank ye. It is the little room to the left, at the end of the passage.” And bidding them good-night, the dame retired. “ Now,” said Zorastro, as soon as the house seemed quiet, “we’ll tie up this drunken fiend and then to bed.” Petro had by this time slipped from the bench on to the floor, where he lay like a log.