WHAT DOCTORS ENCOUNTER.
The doctors who are called up in the middle of the night, at the risk of getting pheumonia, arc just as liable to go without their pay when the danger is past as though they were called in the day time.' One of them was one night aroused.by a frightful knocking at his door. Sticking his head out of the window he asked the matter. “O, doctor, it is my poor wife!” “I beg your pardon, but I haven’t the honour of your acquaintance, and I am not accustomed ——“I know it, doctor, but her life is at stake. If you only knew how' much I love her. For heaven’s sake, I beg you and he went on for a considerable time in this fashion, until the doctor relchted, in spite of the cold winter night., He dressed himself, went out, waded far through the snow, prescribed, and saved the cherished woman. Several days passed, and hearing nothing of any pay, he sent in his bill. Hothing! Then he sent a collector. The devoted husband greeted the dun With anger, exclaiming: “Go to the devil! The idea of my paying that bill for a woman who has since run off with another man I”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2139, 29 January 1880, Page 3
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207WHAT DOCTORS ENCOUNTER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2139, 29 January 1880, Page 3
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