10/14 If he's in the neighborhood, I shall be very glad to have him call. For the present, I shall try some of the old liniments. Those old prescriptions might not suit you now." "Don't trouble yourself in the least about that," said the old lady, lifting her hand impressively; "medicine never injures me. Not a drop of it do I ever take inside of me, prescription or no prescription. But I don't mind putting things on the outside of me--of course, I mean in reason, for there are outside applications that would ruin the constitution of a jack-screw." There were very few people in the neighborhood of Thorbury who were older than Miss Panney, and very few of any age who were as alert in both mind and body. |