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( 6 ) fellow-traveller aſking him, if he ſhould make any long ſtay at Briſtol? Frank anſwered. that would upon the offer of the ſalt water "What," reſumed his companion, " you going to drink it?"—No. Sir. anſwered Frank. "I am going to dipped"—"Pray Sir," rejoined  queriſt, with ſome precipitancy, " may be your diſorder?—"Why, Sir," ſaid Frank, "if you can keep a ſecret I will tell you—I have been bit by mad dog."—"Bit by a mad dog. Sir," ſaid the other, with no ſmall emotion "I hope that you have not communicated your diſorder to any one in the ſame manner."—"Really," anſwered Frank, "to be ingenious with you, it was but yeſterday that I bit my own ſiſter; and if my wife had not eſcaped out of the window, ſhe would have ſhared the ſame fate."—"The devil ſhe would!" reſumed the traveller: "I am in a very comfortable ſituation, then." Frank now diſplayed ſome diſtortions of features and geſticulations, that convinced his fellow-traveller the critical fit was coming on; ſo that, had Frank not began to bark and howl like a dog,