{"id":"01KG8AKCKR1RFE50DKXZG159H0","cid":"bafkreig4pvqr3pucaxogtjepoglwer57e5237osw2pv47wbtyvjr5vg2a4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":4799,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":4728,"text":"\"That's what that Truman--ugh, ugh!--said I ought to take.\r\nYarb-medicine; you are that yarb-doctor, too?\"\r\n\r\n\"The same. Suppose you try one of my boxes now. Trust me, from what I\r\nknow of Mr. Truman, he is not the gentleman to recommend, even in behalf\r\nof a friend, anything of whose excellence he is not conscientiously\r\nsatisfied.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ugh!--how much?\"\r\n\r\n\"Only two dollars a box.\"\r\n\r\n\"Two dollars? Why don't you say two millions? ugh, ugh! Two dollars,\r\nthat's two hundred cents; that's eight hundred farthings; that's two\r\nthousand mills; and all for one little box of yarb-medicine. My head, my\r\nhead!--oh, I ought to have a guard_ee_an for; my head. Ugh, ugh, ugh,\r\nugh!\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, if two dollars a box seems too much, take a dozen boxes at twenty\r\ndollars; and that will be getting four boxes for nothing, and you need\r\nuse none but those four, the rest you can retail out at a premium, and\r\nso cure your cough, and make money by it. Come, you had better do it.\r\nCash down. Can fill an order in a day or two. Here now,\" producing a\r\nbox; \"pure herbs.\"\r\n\r\nAt that moment, seized with another spasm, the miser snatched each\r\ninterval to fix his half distrustful, half hopeful eye upon the\r\nmedicine, held alluringly up. \"Sure--ugh! Sure it's all nat'ral? Nothing\r\nbut yarbs? If I only thought it was a purely nat'ral medicine now--all\r\nyarbs--ugh, ugh!--oh this cough, this cough--ugh, ugh!--shatters my\r\nwhole body. Ugh, ugh, ugh!\"\r\n\r\n\"For heaven's sake try my medicine, if but a single box. That it is pure\r\nnature you may be confident, Refer you to Mr. Truman.\"\r\n\r\n\"Don't know his number--ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh! Oh this cough. He did speak\r\nwell of this medicine though; said solemnly it would cure me--ugh, ugh,\r\nugh, ugh!--take off a dollar and I'll have a box.\"\r\n\r\n\"Can't sir, can't.\"\r\n\r\n\"Say a dollar-and-half. Ugh!\"\r\n\r\n\"Can't. Am pledged to the one-price system, only honorable one.\"\r\n\r\n\"Take off a shilling--ugh, ugh!\"\r\n\r\n\"Can't.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ugh, ugh, ugh--I'll take it.--There.\"\r\n\r\nGrudgingly he handed eight silver coins, but while still in his hand,\r\nhis cough took him and they were shaken upon the deck.\r\n\r\nOne by one, the herb-doctor picked them up, and, examining them, said:\r\n\"These are not quarters, these are pistareens; and clipped, and sweated,\r\nat that.\"\r\n\r\n\"Oh don't be so miserly--ugh, ugh!--better a beast than a miser--ugh,\r\nugh!\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, let it go. Anything rather than the idea of your not being cured\r\nof such a cough. And I hope, for the credit of humanity, you have not\r\nmade it appear worse than it is, merely with a view to working upon the\r\nweak point of my pity, and so getting my medicine the cheaper. Now,\r\nmind, don't take it till night. Just before retiring is the time. There,\r\nyou can get along now, can't you? I would attend you further, but I land\r\npresently, and must go hunt up my luggage.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4RCC82FSF35AP3W7V5","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKBZJ4NMD2R8P9BVAVEC9","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.680Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:09.808Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}