"Well, it is an ill business.

All the horny excrescences of animals, to wit, claws of tigers, panthers, badgers, cats, bears, and the like, and horn of deer, and nails of humans, especially children, are imbued with direst poison.

Y'had better have been bitten by a cur, whatever you may say, than gored by bull or stag, or scratched by bear.

However, shalt have a good biting cataplasm for thy leg; meantime keep we the body cool: put out thy tongue!-good!-fever.

Let me feel thy pulse: good!--fever.