however, Uncle Peter now had acute indigestion, nervous
procrastination, delirium tremens and a spavin on his off fetlock.

All this was caused by a rush of home-made medicine to his brain.

Aunt Martha is a great believer in the simple life, so when Uncle
Peter acquired a simple cold she got a simple move on and poured
enough simple medicines into him to float a simple tug.

Every friend she had in the world suggested a different remedy, and
she tried them all on Uncle Peter.

The cold got frightened and left on the second day, but a woman has
to be loyal to her friends, so Aunt Martha kept on spraying Uncle
Peter's system with dandelion tea and fried peppermint until every
microbe heard about him and dropped in to pay him a long visit.

The first thing Aunt Martha wanted to do was to rub Uncle Peter's
chest with goose grease.

"Goose grease is such a noisy companion," Uncle Peter remonstrated.

"Goose grease may be loud, but it is never vulgar," said Aunt
Martha, and she went after it.

In about ten minutes she came back with the painful news that the
only thing in the neighborhood which looked like a goose was a
quill toothpick, and that was ungreasable.

"But, my dear," Aunt Martha whispered, "I have something Just as