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You use raisins with strychnine in 'em -- and it tells how . '' `` Some fool notion , I s ` pose , '' said Mr. Bronson , rising . `` But go ahead if you 're careful about handlin ' the strychnine . '' Newton spent the time from twelve-thirty to half after two in watching the clock ; and twenty minutes to three found him seated in the woodshed with a pen-knife in his hand , a small vial of strychnine crystals on a stand before him , a saucer of raisins at his right hand , and one exactly like it , partially filled with gopher bait -- by which is meant raisins under the skin of each of which a minute crystal of strychnine had been inserted on the point of the knife . Newton was apparently happy and was whistling _ The Glow-Worm _ . It was a lovely scene if one can forget the gopher 's point of view . At three-thirty , Newton went into the house and lay down on the horsehair sofa , saying to his mother that he felt kind o ' funny and thought he 'd lie down a while .