Her
request was no sooner complied with, than recollecting, that if her
sister's longing was balked, the child might be affected with some
disagreeable mark or deplorable disease, she begged as earnestly
that she would swallow the fruit, and in the mean time ran for
some cordial water of her own composing, which she forced on her
sister, as an antidote to the poison she had received.
This excessive zeal and tenderness did not fail to be very troublesome
to Mrs. Pickle, who, having resolved divers plans for the recovery
of her own ease, at length determined to engage Mrs. Grizzle in
such employment as would interrupt that close attendance, which
she found so teasing and disagreeable. Neither did she wait long
for an opportunity of putting her resolution in practice. The very
next day a gentleman happening to dine with Mr. Pickle, unfortunately
mentioned a pine-apple, part of which he had eaten a week before at
the house of a nobleman, who lived in another part of the country,
at the distance of a hundred miles at least.
The name of this fatal fruit was no sooner pronounced, than Mrs.
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