Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1896-01-05 | Page 8 | You Man Swallow Leeches

YOU MAY SWALLOW LEECHES What imagination can do I can show from my own experience When a boy in the Pyrenees I once drank from a spring and saw to my horror when I had already swallowed a mouthful that the wter was alive with small leeches I I had c bad time of it for two or three days I firmly believed I had leeches alive andsucking my blood inside me I felt the I became languid I believed be-lieved they would drain my blood away Happily my father heard what was the matter with me and explained to me the corrosive nature of the gastric gas-tric fluid and assured me that nothing living an dof the nature of a leech could resist it My dear I der boy sidle sid-le from personal observation of your proceedings at meal time I am convinced vinced you could digest a pair of boots and leeches no lehe could stand a I moment against the force of your gastric II I gas-tric fluid I believed him and forgot I all Words about my imaginary n malady Good I I