TOO SMART FOR HIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1518, 28 March 1887, Page 3

TOO SMART FOR HIM.

Recently a youni? pbyolclan «Vf tl c Harvard Medical School conceive v the idea of playing a j >ke on Miss .amio Oopeland, one of the lady students at the College of Physicians and S-u'ReoDR and at i he same time rubblnu out an tld he hid laid up against her. His plans were carefully mapped out, everything m readiness, the lady wab oallod upon to etteni a c«ae of fracture of the Ihjj. Somewhat act nlnhed, she promptly answered the summons of suffering humanity, oonfident la her ability to sustain the dignity of the provision the had adopted. On arriving at the residence indicated, she was surprised to find her patient to be a nun about forty years old, apparently suffering the most excruciating pains. Removing the covering, uhe dis- j covered the fraoturo to be that of a wooden leg. Nothing daunted, and without showing any evidence of her discovery, she quietly replaced the covering, and said s'io must so for some splints and bandages, and would return Imme dlately. She did so, bringing with h*r some small pieces of brass and some bradr, with which she at once proceeded to repair the fractured limb. The surgical operation was performed In a remarkably short space o! time, and the injury left to the healing proooss of nature. She quietly gave the necessary directions, informed the man that he would be all right m a day or two, and that her bill wos 25c>o1b, Ie is scarcely necessary to •ay that the fee was not forthcoming, the matter being treated ai a good joke Next morniug, however, Miss Oopp-laud appeared oq the scene with ft constable, »ud muoh to the chagrin of the son of Enculapiui, collected nor fee. It w;uM seem that, if the young graduates of Harvard Mwiioul School wtah to get ahead of the lady siudanta of the College of Physicians and Sureeons, they- will have to rise vory early and use more brass thai: Mins C >pela»id -lid m reducing the fracluro of the wo"den log.