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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1660, 25 April 1874, Page 2

Yoxwa Sihfson, beginning the study of g tural philosophy, became fond of applying technical names to common objeots, to im» presss hearers with a sense of his profound knowledge, and; tried the game with;his father one erening. When he mentioned to him that he had swallowed some marine acephalous mollusoki, the old man was muoh alarmed, and he suddenly seized Simpson and threw him to the floor, and held him and •orean- c 1 <or help. And when Mrs. Simpson oante with «ome warm water, and the hired man^ttsh^ in.with a garden, pump, they forced half a gallon of water down Simpsen 1! throat, and then held him by the heels ot« ; the; edge of the poroh and shook him, while the.!old man B aiel, "If we don't «t them things lout of William he will be piaeaed.'* And when they were out, and William «. plained that the articles alluded to were marely oysters, then bis father < fondled him for half an hour with a trunk strap for soaring theifamilf. Subsequently Simpson framed his language in a more familiar phrase. ,