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“So six bolts of silk at twice the price, plus the tariff, but minus my bargain to you as a Zoroastrian would be one hundred forty-seven drachms.”

Half an ounce of Epsom salts, a drachm of Jamaica ginger, and sixty drops of essence of peppermint.

It contains, according to the manufacturers, the "essential antiseptic constituents of thyme, eucalyptus, baptisia, gaultheria, and mentha arvensis," and also two grains of benzo-boracic acid in each drachm.

I shoot with a 20-bore, the left barrel slightly choked, weight 5 lbs., and loaded with 2¼ drachms black powder, ¾ oz.

Eight grains of bromide of cadmium dissolved in half a drachm of pure water were now added, and the solution stirred gently.