Bad luck to her!
she was near gettin' me into the stocks when I sowld her the dose of
oak bark for the sarvants, to draw in their stomachs and shorten
their feedin'. My faith, ould Lindsay 'ud have put me in them only for
bringin' shame upon his wife."*
* Some of our readers may imagine that in the enumeration of
the cures which old Sol professed to effect we have drawn
too largely upon their credulity, whereas there is scarcely
one of them that, is not practised, or attempted, in remote
and uneducated parts of Ireland, almost down to the present
day. We ourselves in early youth saw a man who professed,
and was believed to be able, to cure jealousy in either man
or woman by a potion; whilst charms for colics, toothaches,
taking motes out of the eye, and for producing love, were
common among the ignorant people within our own
recollection.
CHAPTER VIII. A Healing of the Breach.
--A Proposal for Marriage Accepted.
On that evening, when the family were assembled at supper, Mrs. Lindsay,
who had had a previous consultation with her son Harry, thought proper
to introduce the subject of the projected marriage between him and Alice
Goodwin.
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