It is a sovereign cure for headaches and colic. A hootof laughter went up from the crew as the wind sent it all back into thewretch's pallid face and splattered his green doublet with the biliousevidence of his last meal. A sailor in thebow of each boat held high a lantern to light their way, and thereflections danced like fireflies on the calm black surface of thelagoon. Oblivious to their arrival, one of the other gunners was on hishands and knees in front of it, like a dog, lapping up the liquid thatdribbled from the spigot.
His eyes were bloodshot as they darted about the encampment at the edge of theforest. Once or twice she looked back but nobody had followed her. Any oaf canshoot it, but it takes a good man to load it, he grunted, and stoodback critically to watch Hal measure a charge from the leather powderbucket. Sometimes twice a day Slow John came to the castle dungeon and stood atthe peep-hole in the door of Sir Francis's cell.
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