THE NOVELIST'S JOKE
, Alexander Dumas was one - day the guest of Dr.- . Gistal, a leading practitioner in Marseilles. After dinner, while the coffee was being handed round, the host requested the great novelist to enrich his. album with . one of his witty improvisations. '< Certainly, 1 replied Dumas with a smile; awl draw- ' ing out a pencil,- he wrote under the eyes of his entertainer, the following lines : Since Dr. , (xistal came to our town, : To cure diseases casual and hereditary, The hospital has been pulled down— • - ' You ; flatter!' exclaimed the doctor, mightly' .pleased ; but the poet went on: •" And we have made a larger cemetery.
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New Zealand Tablet, 15 November 1906, Page 37
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105THE NOVELIST'S JOKE New Zealand Tablet, 15 November 1906, Page 37
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