Something He Couldn't Swallow.
Not long since, when several physicians had met, a conversation waa commenced about the extraordinary thiugs which a human being might swallow and still live. The familiar stories aboub swallowing silver coins, set 3of false teeth, and bo forth had been related, when Dr Longbow began to speak. " Two years ago," he said, " I was called in great haste to attend a carpenter ia my town, though the message said that the man was beyond doubt already dead, for he had, while holding a large gitnleu in his mouth at bis work, suddenly been taken with a Stoic hiccoughs and sw&ilowed the gimlet. But when I arrived at the man's house I found him very comfortable. The gimlet, gentltmen, gave him no trouble at all to digest." There was silence for a moment. Presently oue ot the doctors remarked : " With yoo. for his physician, Longbow, the man was lucky that ib was only a gimlet that he undertook to swallow." " Whab do you mean ? " "Why, if he had tried to swallow one of your stories, it would have choked him to death."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2300, 31 March 1898, Page 59
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186Something He Couldn't Swallow. Otago Witness, Issue 2300, 31 March 1898, Page 59
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