Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1854], Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family. (J. C. Derby, New York) [word count] [eaf677T].
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A DANGEROUS POSITION.
“Don't lay in that postur, dear,” said Mrs. Partington
to Ike, who was stretched upon a settle, with his heels
a foot or two higher than his head. “Don't lay so; raise
yourself up, and put this pillow under you. I knew a
young man once who had a suggestion of the brain in
consequence of laying so — his brains all run down into
his head!” and with this admonition she left him, to
practise, soon after, the hazardous experiment of tying
his legs in a bow knot round his neck, as he had seen
Professor Baldwin do.
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Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1854], Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family. (J. C. Derby, New York) [word count] [eaf677T].
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