TALES OF AN INSPECTOR
Mr. E. M. Sneyd- Kynnersley’s book “H.M.l.'s Notebook, or Recreations of an Inspector of Schools,” is good reading. It is packed with good stories and reminiscences of the author’s work as school inspector, but he also tells tales out of school. Here is one concerning a doctor:— “I heard a man say. ‘Some of these big men don’t reserve their irons, or their irony, for students. Did you hear what Wiseman, the Harley Street specialist, said to an alderman? 'llio visitor told his symptoms and suggested that ho must bo suffering from appendicitis. Wiseman made the usual inquiries and soon found that the man had simply been doing himself too well. “ ‘The fact is, Mr. Aiderman, he said, “it is not your appendix, it is your table of contents.’ ”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 239, 27 September 1930, Page 9
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