.

A double-barrelled gun and pointers, and leave to shoot three Wellington
College boys a week (not more) in case black game was scarce.

But as he was neither mad enough nor bad enough to be allowed such
luxuries, they grew desperate, and fell into bad ways, viz.--

5. _Suffumigations of sulphur._
_Herrwiggius his "Incomparable drink for madmen"_:

Only they could not find out what it was.

_Suffumigation of the liver of the fish * * *_

Only they had forgotten its name, so Dr. Gray could not well procure
them a specimen.

_Metallic tractors._
_Holloway's Ointment._
_Electro-biology._
_Valentine Greatrakes his Stroking Cure._
_Spirit-rapping._
_Holloway's Pills._
_Table-turning._
_Morison's Pills._
_Hom[oe]opathy._
_Parr's Life Pills._
_Mesmerism._
_Pure Bosh._
_Exorcisms, for which they read Maleus Maleficarum, Nideri
Formicarium, Delrio, Wierus, etc._

But could not get one that mentioned water-babies.

_Hydropathy._
_Madame Rachel's Elixir of Youth._
_The Poughkeepsie Seer his Prophecies._
_The distilled liquor of addle eggs._
_Pyropathy._

As successfully employed by the old inquisitors to cure the malady of
thought, and now by the Persian Mollahs to cure that of rheumatism.

_Geopathy, or burying him._
_Atmopathy, or steaming him._
_Sympathy, after the method of Basil Valentine his Triumph
of Antimony, and Kenelm Digby his Weapon-salve, which some
call a hair of the dog that bit him._
_Hermopathy, or pouring mercury down his throat to move the
animal spirits._
_Meteoropathy, or going up to the moon to look for his lost
wits, as Ruggiero did for Orlando Furioso's: only, having
no hippogriff, they were forced to use a balloon; and,
falling into the North Sea, were picked up by a Yarmouth
herring-boat, and came home much the wiser, and all over
scales._
_Antipathy, or using him like "a man and a brother."_
_Apathy, or doing nothing at all._
_With all other ipathies and opathies which Noodle has invented,
and Foodle tried, since black-fellows chipped flints at
Abbeville--which is a considerable time ago, to judge by
the Great Exhibition._

But nothing would do; for he screamed and cried all day for a
water-baby, to come and drive away the monsters; and of course they did
not try to