A RUN ON OIL.
It was arranged that each member of a certain Fire Brigade should pay Id a week to a medical man, so that they might have his services in the ovent of accident, or medicine in case of illness. Pors ome time neither illness aaor accident occurred, but when the fire season began in earnest all at once the firemen began to call on the doctor for castor oil. Bach brought his hottle, into which an ounce was poured, until the oil was exhausted, and the docter forced to send for a further supply. When that too was close upon being used up the doctor one day asked a decent-looking fellow, one of the brigade, what was wrong with the men that they required so much castor oil ? “ Nothing wrong at all, doctor; we grease our boots wdth it !” Mem. —From that day the doctor arranged that all castor oil should be drunk on the premises.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 27, 30 September 1893, Page 10
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159A RUN ON OIL. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 27, 30 September 1893, Page 10
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