THE ODDS WERE BETTER
A farm laborer was taken ill on a visit to London, and a friend gave him the address of a doctor to whom to go. -The fellow soon came back and reported progress. “ I’ve taken some medicine,” said he, “ but I'm hanged if 1 went to that doctor of yours.” “Why ?” asked his friend. “Well,” he replied, “ I was just abgut to go in. when I saw on his door plate his name, ‘Dr X.,’ and below it; • io to i.’ When I saw that I said to myself: ‘ I’ll be hanged if I take any such risks as that!’ So I went a few doors up the street, and saw another plate, with 4 Dr Y.,’ and below it ‘3 to 5.’ The odds were better, so I went to him.”
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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 123, 17 October 1902, Page 5
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136THE ODDS WERE BETTER Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 123, 17 October 1902, Page 5
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