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Southland Times, Issue 1158, 3 November 1869, Page 3

An Abchbishop's cube fob Headache. — The first occasion on which I ever saw Dr. Whately was under curious circum- , stances. J accompanied my late Mend Dr. Tield, to visit professionally some members of the .Archbishop's household at Bedesdale, Htillorgan. The ground was covered by two teet of snow, and the thermometer was down almost to zero. . Knowing the Archbishop's character for humanity, I expressed much surprise at seeing an old laboring man in his shirt sleeves, felling a tree " after hours" in the demense, while a heavy shower of sleet drifted pitilessly on his wrinkled face. " That laborer," replied Dr Field, " whom 1 you think the victim of prelatical despotism, is no other than the Archbishop curing himself of a headache. When his Grace has been reading and writing more than ordinary, and finds any pain or confusion about the cerebral i organisation, he puts both to flight by i rushing out with an axe, and slashing ' away at some ponderous trunk. As soon as he finds himself in a profuse perspiration, he gets into bed, wraps himself in i Limerick blankets, falls into a sound 1 slumber, and gets up buoyant." — " Memoirs of Archbishop IVhately." •' j ,•> ,I: id