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Excerpt from The Steam-Boat
Having been for several years in what Mrs. Maclecket, my worthy landlady, calls a com plaining way, I was persuaded by her advice to tr the benefit of the sea air in the steam-boat to reenock; and I found myself greatly ad vantaged by the same. I am not, however, sure that the benefit which my strength and ap petite received in those sea voyages was so much owing to the change of air, and the wholesome fume of the salt-water that I breath ed, as from the conversible and talkative com pany which I found among the other passen gers; by which my Spirits were maintained in a state jocund temperance, and my thoughts so lifted out of the cares of business, that I was, for the time, a new. Creature, bringing back with me to behind the counter a sort of youth thiness that lasted sometimes more than a fort night; keeping o¿' what Mrs. Maclecket called the hypochonders, till I again fell out of order.
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