ABSTRACT
Roughiu.~ It should have a place in every sick-room, and be the invalid's cherished companion. In taking Mr. Clemens' jokes, however, for hygienic purposes, it behooves the patient to exercise great caution in regard to the strength of the dose, if we may judge of the power of the medicine from its effects upon a hungry camel, which once, at the head-waters of the Jordan, made an experiment upon the author's overcoat as an article of diet. The overcoat was left lying upon the
ground while the travelers were pitching their tents, and the camel, having contemplated it for awhile with a critical eye, seemed to come to the conclusion that it must be a new edible. But we will let the author tell the story, in his own inimitable way:
[quotes ch. 3 'He pnt his' to 'loosened his teeth'.] However, it was not our author's jokes, powerful as were their
effects, but one of his statements of facts-one of the mildest and gentlest, he declares, that he ever laid before a trusting public-that proved fatal to the sensitive animal, and caused him to 'fall over as stiff as a carpenter's work-bench, and die a death of indescribable agony.'
