THE UNNEEDED TONIC

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6410, 3 November 1923, Page 2

THE UNNEEDED TONIC

“Yes,” said the doctor, “there is no doubt about it. You are run down. But that can soon be put right* as you have had the sense to come to me in time.”

He stopped speaking, and wrote out a prescription on a half-sheet of \notepaper. “Take this,” he said, “to the chemist, and get him to make it up for you. It will put you right again, and yvill only cost you half a crown.”

Aftem fumbling in his pocket for a few moments the patient spoks: - “Doctor,” he said, “would you mind lending me the half-crown?” The doctor, without uttering a word, took back the prescription he had just written, tore it up, and made out another.

“Here,” he said. “This will only cost you threepence. The other would have been quite unnecessary—it was for your nerve! Good morning!”