Cough Mixture

Aggie	I have been thinking again.
Bettie	Oh. You didn’t get a migraine did you?
Aggie	No, I try not to think too hard, I don’t like those migraines.
Bettie	I made a cure for them.
Aggie	Yes, but it always gives me the hiccups.
Bettie	I have a cure for those too.
Aggie	And that puts spots before my eyes.
Bettie	There is an easy cure for spots before the eyes.
Aggie	I know, but that gives me a migraine.
Bettie	Oh, never mind. Maybe one day I will make a cure without any side effects.
Aggie	At least the side effects aren’t as bad as your cough mixture.
Bettie	That was only one batch. I think that was too much vinegar.
Aggie	Are you sure it was the vinegar? Poor Albert was bright orange for a month.
Bettie	Errrm, maybe it was something else.
Aggie	Like what?
Bettie	Oh, I don’t know.
Aggie	Come on, what did you put in the cough mixture?
Bettie	Maybe it was the curry powder.
Aggie	Curry powder does not make you go orange.
Bettie	A lot of it might.
Aggie	Even a lot of curry powder wouldn’t turn you orange.
Bettie	It might.
Aggie	I put a whole pot in your stew last week and you didn’t turn orange.
Bettie	I went red.
Aggie	But only for a moment.
Bettie	But what if I added more.
Aggie	How much more than one pot?
Bettie	Well you know the barrel of curry powder you keep in the cellar?
Aggie	Yes?
Bettie	I took out a whole bucket full.
Aggie	You put in a whole bucket full? No wonder poor Albert went orange, but surely he wouldn’t have stayed orange for so long.
Bettie	I didn’t put the bucket of curry powder in.
Aggie	You didn’t? So why did Albert turn orange?
Bettie	Now I think about it, it was definitely the curry powder.
Aggie	With less than a bucket full?
Bettie	No, with quite a lot.
Aggie	You said you didn’t put all the bucket in.
Bettie	I didn’t put any of the curry powder from the bucket in. I left the bucket in the cellar in case you wanted some.
Aggie	I would have just taken some out of the barrel.
Bettie	Ah, you see I used what was left in the barrel.
Aggie	You used a whole barrel of curry powder in the cough mixture?
Bettie	Not the whole barrel. I took out a bucket full first. I knew it would be silly to use a whole barrel full.
Aggie	I doubt one bucket full would have made that much difference.
Bettie	I’m sure it would have. Quite a bit of difference.
Aggie	Really? How much difference?
Bettie	Well, poor Albert was nearly dead afterwards.
Aggie	You nearly killed Albert?
Bettie	Very much so. I did cure his cough though, and I think he had a flu coming too.
Aggie	Poor Albert. What did he say afterwards?
Bettie	For a while nothing. Then he looked in the mirror. Then he said ‘Aaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhh!’
Aggie	I’m not surprised. Poor Albert.
Bettie	Well he is much better now. He hasn’t mentioned having a cough since.
Aggie	Neither would I if I knew you were going to nearly kill me just to cure it.
Bettie	I never killed him. It was only nearly.
Aggie	Still looks a little orange though.
Bettie	He just tells everyone he’s just been on holiday.
Aggie	Bless him.
Bettie	I had to, after nearly killing him.

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Cough Mixture

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