RICH MAN AND DOCTOR

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1923, Page 4

RICH MAN AND DOCTOR

SASKD TIIK SACS INTKUVENINC

**Oik o upon ii mne there was a mail who -aid. 1 am poor, but 1 shall yet be rich; for I have Youth and Strength and Ability. And when 1 am rich, then will I have a Fine Stable, and a |s,, a Vast Wine-cellar,” writes Safcd

• And he went to work with Great Zeal, and he gathered in Coin- and cadi passing year foil ml him trying a little harder to discover ways ~f not paving taxes on all his Wealth . lot his Wealth had increased so large that it made him feel Pour to contemplate the Amount of Ins Taxes. • And it came to pass, when he had grown rich, that he moved from the humble borne where he had dwelt, and lie Inti filed himself a Great lloo.e. Ami bem-atli the House was a Vast Wine-cellar. And in the Wine-cellar were mans amt choice \ intagex, o*i which he paid a Great Piic-e. • •Ami in the rear of the House did he build a Large Stable. And he 'hied it with Fine Horses ami Kxpous'io Carriages. And lie had Grooms nr.q Coachmen in Livery.

■ And it came to pass when all these things had been accomplished that be dropped one day in his tracks. And when the Doctor came and Listened at his Heart-action with ft Stethoscope and measured his Blood-pressure with something else, that the man looked into the face of the Doctor, and asked a number of Troubled Questions. “And the Doctor answered, and said unto him: —

•■lt' thou wilt live many days, thou hast a straight and narrow path to tread. Otherwise may we as well get in our order with the X ndertakor and do it early.

“And the man inquired of the Doctor. saving. Toll me what I must do, and I will do it, and I will sign my name on the Dotted Line. ••And the Doctor said. Thou must Walk Moderately: and Thou must drink nothing but W ater. “And the man said. All my life I have laboured for this end, that 1 might own a W ine-cellar, find now

thou surest unto me, Drink only Water.

“And the Doctor said, It is even so. “And he spake yet again unto the Doctor, saying—“l have always loved Good Horses, and J have worked myself to death for this only, that I might he rich, and own a Good Stable. “And the Doctor said.

“That is about the size of it. “And the man said, I could walk when I had no stable. I could drink water when I had no 'Wine-cellar. “And lie faced the future, a sadder, and not very much wiser man. “Anil about this time the Automobile smote his Stable upon the one cheek and the Eighteenth Amendment hit his Wine-cellar on the other. And lie then began to feel better about his Stable and his Cellar. “Now 1 look about me, and 1 see men not a few who are labouring for something in the future, and 1 have fear for some of them that by the time they get it they will have lost the capacity to enjoy it. And to them I sac:

“Labour not for the things which can yield thee no Solid Satisfaction; hut labour for the things that are Good and Fine, and get a part of the Fun as thou goest along.”—“Public Opinion.”