PAYMENT IN KIND.
He was a poor man, but had been obliged at last, to call in the doctor to attend his little girl. Her illness had turned out to be a serious one, and the doctor had to pay many visits and leave a good deal of medicine for his patient. Now, however, she was well again, and her father stood in the doctor’s room waiting of the bill to be made out. When at last the account was presented to him, ho was almost paralysed to see the huge amount he owed. “The small amount is for the medicine, and the large one is for \my calls at your house,” said the doctor. The hard-up father took out hi.- Itai purse. “Here,” he said, “is the money f< the medicine. My—my wife will herself return your calls!”
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Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 73, 11 September 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)
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139PAYMENT IN KIND. Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 73, 11 September 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)
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