And not his master.
“Well, how’s the Patient?” Bolus said:—
John shook his head.
“Indeed!—hum! ha!—that’s very odd!
He took the draught?”—John gave a nod.
“Well,—how?—what then?—speak out, you dunce!”
“Why then”—says John—“we shook him once.”
“Shook him!—how?”—Bolus stammer’d out:
“We jolted him about.”
“Zounds! Shake a Patient, man!—a shake won’t do.”