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' A story is told .of a lady who, though' quite comfortably off, hated to pay doctors their-.Hard-earned , : fees. ' TVhon her friends v.'ero ill /She.generally: managed, to' got'.'a' copy Vof ,; tho ; invalid's-, prescription,, and accumulated in. time quite 'a . respectable collection' of . unfailing /fcures. . The ' .recent changeable', weather gave -tho lijdy a heavy cold, ; which nono of her stored-up' romedies would -relieve,and. she .decided to visit 'a friend- whose' husband was a doctor. Arrived at tho house, she found the doctor 'in; Sis- wife's drawing-room. "My dear doctor,"- she said in her most insinuating manner, ."what db you do when you, have an ob'stinate. cough?" The doctor seeined for a moinontor two to be lost in thought; then, suddenly, looking full at his; visitor,7 ho - replied tersely, ,"I cough." : .. .
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 3
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129THIUFT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 3
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