SOMETHING HE COULDN'T SWALLOW.
Not long since, when several physicians had met, a conversation was commenced about the extraordinary things which a human being might swallow and stiil live. The familiar stories about swallowing silver coins, sets of false teeth, and so forth had been related, when Dr Longbow began to speak. " Two years ago," he said, "I was en lied in great hacte to attend a carpenter in my town, though the message said that the man was beyond doubt already dead, for he had, while holding a large gimblet in his mouth at his work, suddenly been taken with a fit of hiccoughs and swallowed the gimlet. But when I arrived at the man's house I found him very comfortable. The gimlet, gentlemen, gave him no trouble at all to digest." • There -was. silence for a moment Presently one of the doctors remarked :— " With you for his physician, Longbow, the man was lucky that it was only a gimlet that he undertook to swallow." " What do you mean P" " Why, if he had tried to swallow one of your stories, it would have choked him to death,"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6144, 2 April 1898, Page 6
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