‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.

Potassium citrate is a white, hygroscopic crystalline powder. It is odorless with a saline taste.

It goes on and gets rather graphic as Jimmy, under the impression that he’s speaking to someone at The Herald, pleads to be unembedded.

Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.