The “treatment” involved coating the exposed arm from the wrist to the elbow with the alleged culicifuge.

What a blowzed condition you are in, child ! exclaimed Mrs. Mustley, as Kate came running in, one morning, to tell her uncle, with great glee, that she had spied a blackbird's nest in the old thorn-tree on the lawn, low enough for her, when Matty lifted her up, to peep in and see three young ones huddling together in the nest, to keep each other warm.

You see, it's a well known fact, you know / I'm four sheets to the wind, I'm glad you're gone

The most common item of punctuation was the punctus or point.