Medicine and Rhyme.
_Dr 08., having discontinued his professional visits and attentions upon a lady patient on account of her improved condition, sent c couple of ducks to the mother of the convalescent lauy. accompanying the present with the " following note : I've dispatched, my dear madam, tbis scrap of a Letter, To say that Miss Lucy is very much better; A regular doctor no longer she lacks, And therefore I've sent her a couple of quacks.
The lady returned 1 thanks with this : Yes, 'twas polite, truly, my very good friend. Thus a couple of quacks to your patient to send, Since there's nothing so likely as '"quacks," it is plain. To make work for the regular doctor sgam.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 87
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119Medicine and Rhyme. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 87
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