In that year John Uskglass suffered some strange malady - as he didfrom time to time. Someone - aman - was bending over it. Then he put four drops oftincture into a glass of water and swallowed it. Everything about him plainly spoke him to be a farmer or atradesman and they were not best pleased that he took it upon himself toorder them about.
They have their faults, as other men do,but their achievements are still remarkable. Why the magician should have taken such a dislike to thisparticular fruit, no one knows. r, and the bindings of thebooks, being all tan and brown and dry with age, compound that impression. But one thing struck me as verycurious - both these old servants insisted that Findhelm never read the King'sbook and had only the vaguest notion of what it contained.
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