Taken Literally.
Onc.e upon a time a very cool man called on his physician and asked him for medical advice. “ Take a tonic, and dismiss from your mind all that tends to worry you,” said the physician. Several months afterwards the patient received a bill from the physicians asking him to remit three guineas, and answered it thus : “Dear Doctor, — I have taken the tonic and vour advice. Your pill tends to worry me, so I dismiss it from mind. ” Moral —Advice sometimes defeats its giver.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 17 September 1915, Page 3
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86Taken Literally. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 17 September 1915, Page 3
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