THE CITY DRUG CLERK.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 11, 14 March 1891, Page 20

THE CITY DRUG CLERK.

He is well up in physic, has a recipe for phthisic, that will cute a case that’s chronic in the quickest sort of style, For while he was at college he absorbed all sorts of knowledge with a keenness and avidity that made his teachers sinue.

He can tell you to a fraction, writing out the full reaction, how much maltose is converted when you brew a pint of beer.For on substances organic whose origin’s botanic he’s a mine of information and was never know to err.

He is up in mathematics, can explain electrostatics, when it comes to pharmacognosy he’s a perfect mine of wealth. He can analyze a water, and can tell you what you ought to do to make it fit to drink without injuring your health.

He explains the metric system with an air of sapient wisdom, he knows a little Latin, on a pinch ‘ spricht etwas Deutsch.’ He reads the leading journal, and his wit springs ever vernal, and when discussing politics he’s never in the lurch.

He can draw you soda water with an air of freezing hauteur, that quite precludes necessity for having any ice ; Though when customers are pretty he can be very witty, and the girls unite in saying that he’s every thing that’s nice.

Such a brainy aggregation is quite fit to rule a nation, yethe deals out pills and powders with a condescending air For a paltry compensation, that’s a shame to his vocation, and I leave it to the public, do you think that this is fair ?