Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 372
. Then rubbing the powder on his friends artificialleg, he put it into the water. Now, the people seeing he wasnot hurt, soon bought up all the powder, so that his lordshipvery shortly raised between three and four pounds. Soon afterthis a very ingenious drayman who had purchased some of thepowder,… … a cunning dog, got into a private room, to rub the powder ofrotten post upon his leg. Which done, he returns to thekitchen, and plunged his leg into the kettle of scalding hotwater which made him roar out like a town bull, and what wasworst, he had like to have lost his leg. Lord Pembroke was once…
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