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Excerpt: ...ain''t heart only, said Dan.Stomach? suggested Pete.All overish, mostly.You ain''t bin readin'' the advertisements o'' quack doctors, h… More...

Excerpt: ...ain''t heart only, said Dan.Stomach? suggested Pete.All overish, mostly.You ain''t bin readin'' the advertisements o'' quack doctors, hev ye?Not since I was twenty. They did give me fits at one time. Boys--he began to scratch himself furiously--I''ve a feelin'' as if I was afire inside.Maw used ter give me sarsaparilla, said Jimmie.My folks, observed Pete, never tuk nothin'' but castor ile. Must ha'' downed a barrel o'' that when I was a kid.This thing is drivin'' me crazy, said Dan.Wal, replied Pete deliberately, I know what I''d do, and I''d do it quick. This yere Professor is on the ranch, and he''s a dandy. After the rodeo, you jest sachay up to him an'' tell him what you''ve tole us. If he don''t take the kinks outer yer, he''s a fraud. See!Gosh, exclaimed Dan, I''ll do it! They turned in. The Professor next day watched the rodeo from a platform erected near the biggest of our corrals. This was his first visit to California, and he was mightily impressed by the skill and vigour of the vaqueroes. To Ajax he declared that he was amazed to find such splendid specimens in that particular locality. Ajax smiled. We have not much, he said, but we feel that we have a right to expect high health. We used to say, he added, that sickness was unknown in our hills till a wise doctor settled here from the East.The Professor frowned.I rose at six, he said austerely. I made a microscopical examination of the water in your new spring, which rises, I venture to remind you, through soil which is undoubtedly diatomaceous.That sounds awful.Diatoms in a fossilised condition are silicious, and they are to be found in Virginia, in Bermuda, and here.Professor, I am an ignoramus.Then it is my duty to inform you that the man or woman who drinks water from that spring is swallowing millions of tiny flint knives, hard as diamond dust--indeed, diatomaceous earth is used commercially as a polishing powder.You mean that if we drink that water... Horace Annesley Vachell, Books, Fiction and Literature, Bunch Grass Books>Fiction and Literature <

ISBN: 9781770459915

Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955) was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works. After a short period in the Rifle Brigade, he went to… More...

Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955) was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works. After a short period in the Rifle Brigade, he went to California where he became partner in a land company. By 1900 Vachell was back in England and went on to write over 50 volumes of fiction including a popular school story, The Hill (1905), which gives an idealised view of life at Harrow and of the friendship between two boys. He also wrote 14 plays, the most successful of which in his lifetime was Quinneys (1914). Another play, The Case of Lady Camber (1915), was the basis for Hitchcock's film Lord Camber's Ladies (1932). His last autobiographical book, More from Methuselah (1951), was published in the year of his 90th birthday. Although some fiction, like the stories in Bunch Grass (1912), is set in American ranching country, much of his writing concerns a comfortably prosperous English way of life which was echoed in his beautiful old house near Bath and his old-fashioned, distinguished appearance and manner. Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ General Bunch-Grass~~Horace-Annesley-Vachell General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781770459915

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