You don't know what horrid things are done to those afflicted with my complaint.

But I do,--for I have informed myself on the subject.
Their skins are scarified, and their sores blistered, lanced, cauterized, and sometimes burned away with a knob of red-hot iron, called 'the button.'" "But iv id is necessary, myn goed Blaize, you musd submid," replied his mother.

"Never mind de hod iron or de lance, or de blisder, iv dey make you well.

Never mind de pain.

It will soon be over." "Soon over!" bellowed Blaize, sinking into a chair.