TOO LATE.
There is a time for everything, and the secret of success in life lies in doing things at just the right minute. A veterinary surgeon has occasion to instruct a coloured stableman how to administer medicine to an ailing horse. He was to get a common tin tube, —a bean blower, —put a dose of the medicine into it, insert one end of the tube into the horse’s mouth, and blow vigorously into the other end, and so force the medicine down the horse’s throat. Half an hour afterward the coloured man appeared at the surgeon’s office, looking very much out of sorts. • What is the matter?’ inquired the doctor, with some concern. • Why, boss, dat hoss, he—he blew fust !’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 31, 30 July 1892, Page 772
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122TOO LATE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 31, 30 July 1892, Page 772
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