CURING THE WRONG MAN.

Kumara Times, Issue 595, 24 August 1878, Page 2

CURING THE WRONG MAN.

An English StafFord-liouse stationed not far from Rasgrad! was "' kept awake at night by th« 't couching of the sentry outside his tent./ Una!ile at last to bear it any ;longrtVfthe Kiirgeo'i turned out and mads understand that ho, the copld stand it no longer an 1 would a draught which he must cough no more. The man was quite submissive, and the doctor /turned his tent and concocted the istroft&ebfc*..'' and therefore the nastiest draught his" chest would afford. He then came* but ; 1 somewhat appeased by his own ariSstic suocess, and ordered the sentry ' low the mixture. The man ' pYiJtestecl, vehemently that he did riot wadj -fatyft ■ last, tasted it, refused it again,'and^'w^ - only finally induced to swallow i'6 by more and more fearful tions, anil aspersions on"the character of his mother, ilis great-grandmother. The stirgwm, returned to his damp flo'jr conscious of having done a good act., '-"fhe result, was evidently satisfactory, the sound.of jj. co.ighing ceased in the camp., and the snrgeou went to sleep thankful that he - had been brought up.iri a country of Scientific attainments and decided, mea- > '■■ sur-.s. Tiie next morning lie was.sent • f>r *>y the Turkish general oomiiianclr - ing, wh > said to him, if How 'is thjs, ..- sir? I h'-ar serious complaints about"" you wit'i regard jo ths sentries, o One?. % of them has-reported that in the middledof tbe night yon came:-out oft your* tienbi'-i and cursed hun'iu the most awful>mari-.-.U ner ; and another reports that'jou;came >-.-r out to liim and made him swall^w^U---) divalful drink which he is sure must

have been poison." The »uarl ha I been relieved wliile the snrgt-pn was compounding, his mixture, and ho had cured the wrong man !