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THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF PLODKINS.
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ners of my mouth, and receding slower and slower down my face and neck. Then I think I must have become insensible until just before you entered the room. Of course there is something wrong with the electric fittings, and there's a leak of electricity; but I think liquor is at the bottom of all this. I don't believe it would have affected me like this if I had not been soaked in whisky."
"If I were you," I said, "I would leave whisky alone."
"I intend to," he answered solemnly, "and baths too."
