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THE WATER BABIES :Oil of wormwood.
 * Water of Nile.
 * Capers.
 * Good wine (but there was none to be got).
 * The water of a smith's forge.
 * Hops.
 * Ambergris.
 * Mandrake pillows.
 * Dormouse fat.
 * Hares' ears.
 * Starvation.
 * Camphor.
 * Salts and senna.
 * Musk.
 * Opium.
 * Strait-waistcoats.
 * Bullyings.
 * Bumpings.
 * Blisterings.
 * Bleedings.
 * Bucketings with cold water.
 * Knockings down.
 * Kneeling on his chest till they broke it in, etc., etc.; after the mediæval or monkish method: but that would not do. Bumpterhausen's blue follicles stuck there still.

Then—

4. Coaxing.
 * Kissing.

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