MEANS] "Did you use the blood warm ?" asked Small, with a solemnity most edifying.
These were almost the only words he had uttered since he entered the cabin.
"Laws, yes; I jest let it run right out of the cat's tail onto the breakin'-out.

And fer airesipelus, I don't know nothin' so good as the blood of a black hen." "How old ?" asked the doctor.
"There you showed yer science, doctor! They's no power in a pullet.

The older the black hen the better.

And you know the cure fer rheumatiz ?" And here the old woman got down a bottle of grease.

"That's ile from a black dog.