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" So, at last I bought this trinket,
And—(how much I love to think it!) She admired it, with a pretty little speech ;
Though I bought it of a pedlar,
Brown, and wizened as a medlar, Who was hawking odds and ends about the beach.
But I managed,—very nearly—
To believe that I was dearly Loved by somebody, who (blushing like a peach)
Seemed to like it; saying ' wear it
For my sake ; and I declare it
Seldom strikes me that I bought it on the beach.
And, I'm ever, ever, seeing
My imaginary being ;— And I'd rather that my marrow-bones should bleach
In the winds than that a cruel
Fate should snatch from me the jewel Which I bought for one and sixpence, on the beach."
Verses, and Fly Leaves, C. S. Calverley, 1885.
Around
Stockholm there are several suburban resorts where sea-bathing, and
water-drinking go on (when the weather is warm, and favourable). At one
of these resorts a visitor observed a large sign-board., at a gateway,
reading thus—" Dam Bad Haus." This notice gave him quite a shock; it
appeared so recklessly profane ! until, presently, he discovered its
innocent, common-place meaning to be " Ladies' Bath House."
As to water drinking, Dr. Wiley, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry, concluded a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association the other day with a doggrel, as follows—
" Full many a man, both young and old, Has gone to his sarcophagus By pouring water icy cold Adown his hot oesophagus."
" As to the action externally of Mineral waters applied over the skin surface," writes Dr. Burney Yeo,
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