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12 pain and sickness. It tears my heart to see him wince, as he takes your medicine.

The more he winces, the surer is the effect. That's why the sage Chyabana observes: "In medicine as in good advices, the least palatable ones are the  truest." Ah, well! I must be trotting now. [Exit]

Well, I'm jiggered, there's Gaffer now.

Why, why, I won't bite you.

No, but you are a devil to send children off their heads.