MEDICAL ADVICE.
A night or two since a citizen of; Charlotte avenue, who has a wood-pile int|ie> alley, concluded to sit up a few hours >andl see if he could detect the person : or ,persons who had atolen a dozen. atiok3 ;i tlie night previous. About eleven , ofckjok a bow-backed coloured man came. iUpo^e alley, looked around in a cautiou^nway, and then took a stick. of wood on, each ahoulder and started off. . 1U r'vii " I've got you, you thief I" !crje(l<' the oitizen as he dashed out. , ;..,,. ilnv^ "So you hez — so you hez ; ";jrepliecLil>lio man, as he let the sticks- drop/ " butjejw wait a leetle afore you fires off anyipisfcpls. Does yer know what I was gwineJte*^ 0 wid dis wood ?" , * rJfjßi " Y"es, Ido ! You were stealing it !$ " Juss like I fought you'd Bayj Bsbi. but dar's whar' you hurts my feelins.-,,,I r tsgui talkin' to de doctaw 'bout dis bendin' jo'^pr in my back, an' he tole me, to jW.^lk up an' down the alley wid a load on^oaf shoulders. I was borrowin' dis, w,oOjd^o oarry out dat medical , advice, sati,, a^if you charges anyfing, I can pay..rd^/cash right down." , <,'j+f, r tt The citizen said he thought he coujld cure the " bending over," but he can't^be positive whether he made any improrement or not, as the man broke away after the fourth kick, and galloped down ithe alley like a barrel of Band rolling; down hill. — Detroit Free Press. , ; ,,.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1382, 25 May 1878, Page 19
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243MEDICAL ADVICE. Otago Witness, Issue 1382, 25 May 1878, Page 19
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