HOW HE GOT HIS WHISKY.
♦ — rrrrA good story Js told by a medical correspondent of an Englishv paper :-^-* "A patient of _ mine, a middle-aged clergyman, was sufferirig from slight sy_nptOms f of ; gout. -I -"ecdmmended a hot i glass- of' whisky-andr.water every day, in ; preference , to , •physic of any kind^. ybut ([ my reverend with upturned /eyes,' absolutely to bccbpt' -riy^prescriptiPri; ''saying: »No, not at all, doctor j I have all' my lite preached uagainst alcohol in any form. If that is the.only remedy, I n must: Con-; tinue ill. . ( Besides,' .. said he, 'Jf -I .ring for hot water pay servants, wpuid guess its'' purpose:' 1 Said i'T: fr ' You shave) ring the bell '.' for shaving water ; : mix your glass of medicinal .whiskey, and who ."WilLxbe j the ? wiser but , 'yoursfelfT %hey parson) at last.»^ubmittedYrr'W.P warmly, jr shppk ,, hands and 'parted.^ Jfij a few weeks' '"time, ".'"my jcafriage passipg the clergyman's door 'rbmiiidecl ■ i^e o^ my clerical friendr- T touched the bell, and-the thiri^ycarewornAface^ofca'-'once robustu tj housekeeper -,-> answered^ Cmp; 'Well,' said I, ' ho w/s^your,! roaster,,?! 'Stark, starin' mad,^ir~mad "as caii be.' « Mad J how I wliat,! how.mad V 'Lor/si?, m^d^ ne f cafi%e T j 9 wny, he shaves himself about twenty times every dayrl3f^asl|he:jnnbceritj'eply.!?, sywT
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Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 190, 1 March 1878, Page 3
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205HOW HE GOT HIS WHISKY. Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 190, 1 March 1878, Page 3
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