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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    opened they surged into the building, laughing and talking as they went. “The professor is going to raise our hair to-day. I saw his lamp alight at three o’clock this morning,” said a big lanky youth, whose coarse locks stood on end like the quills of a porcupine. “ Thine is stiff enough already, old scratch back,” replied a little round fellow with a merry face. “ Marry, I wish he’d cut thee up to see where thy laugh comes from.” “Aye, but didst thou hear how he cured old Cornelius of the falling sickness, and sent him home dancing ? ” “Nay,” said another; “but he gave my cousin’s old hen, who had cast all her feathers, a dose of his physic tincture, and the next day all her feathers grew again, and she went and laid six eggs in my maiden aunt’s best bed.” “To thy seats,” cried a voice, as a bell rang; and at once there was a scramble for the benches. The hour for the lecture had come, and a hush now fell upon the assembly.