Going off Very Quickly.
Hood used to tell a story of a hypochondriac who was in the habit, two or three times a week, of believing himself dying. On a certain occasion he was taken ill with one of his terrors while riding out in his gig, and happening at the time to see in the road ahead his family physician riding in his carriage in the same direction, he applied the whip to his horse to overtake the old doctor as soon as he possibly could. The doctor, however, seeing him coming, applied the whip to his own horse, and as he had a nag that was considered a " goer," they had a close time of it for about three miles. Bat the hypochondriac, driving a fast horse, finally came alongside of the doctor, and exclaimed : " Hang it, doctor, pull np — pull up instantly 1 lam dying 1 " " I think you are," cried the doctor ; " I never saw anyone going so fast."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 13 November 1890, Page 42
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163Going off Very Quickly. Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 13 November 1890, Page 42
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