Testing Him.
A droll performance is credited to a certain United States surgeon. To test the hearing of an applicant for a pension, he held his watch some distance from the man's left ear, and asked him if he could hear it tick. The answer was " No," and the same reply was given to repeated questions as the watch was brought gradually nearer. " Put him down totally deaf in the left ear," the surgeon said ; and holding the watch away from the man's right ear, the same question was asked. To his surprise the answer was the same. It then occurred to the surgeon to examine his watch, and he found that it had stopped.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1971, 14 November 1889, Page 38
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115Testing Him. Otago Witness, Issue 1971, 14 November 1889, Page 38
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