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CROTCHET CASTLE.
sucks up infection from water, wherever it exists on the face of the earth.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT.
Well, sir, you have for you the authority of the ancient mystagogue, who said: Ἐστιν ὕδωρ ψυχῦ θάνατος[1]. For my part I care not a rush (or any other aquatic and inesculent vegetable) who or what sucks up either the water or the infection I think the proximity of wine a matter of much more importance than the longinquity of water. You are here within a quarter of a mile of the Thames, but in the cellar of my friend, Mr. Crotchet, there is the talismanic antidote of a thousand dozen of old wine; a beautiful spectacle, I assure you, and a model of arrangement.
- ↑ Literally, which is sufficient for the present purpose, "Water is death to the soul." Orphica: Fr. XIX.
