TERY BAD INDEED.
Few things vex a dootor more than to be cent for in great haste at an unseasonable hour, only ito find upon arrival thai little or nothing is the matter with the patient. An eminent surgeon wsb called to an " urgent case " of this sort, and found that the patient, who was a man of great wealth but small courage, had received a very slight wound from a fall. "The surgeon's face did not betray hiß irritation, but be gave his servant orders to go home with all possible haste, and return with a certain plaster. The patient, turning very pale, said anxiously :— " I trust, sir, there is no great and immediate danger ? " " Indeed there is," answered the surgeon. "Why, if that fellow doesn't run like a race-horse, there's no telling but your wound will heal before he gets back with theplaßter!"-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5092, 27 October 1894, Page 3
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145TERY BAD INDEED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5092, 27 October 1894, Page 3
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