Odd Introductions.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 346, 27 February 1889, Page 3

Odd Introductions.

It is, not only dishonourable to open a lobtev intended for another, even when one supposes his own a/Fairs to form the subject matter, but it is a piocess likely to damage the reader's peace of mind. .A wealthy tradesman! who had been drinking the w.iters of Bath, took a fancy to try those of Bristol. Armed with a letter of introduction from his Bath physician to a piofessional bt other at Bristol, the old gentleman set oIF on hia journey. On the way ho said to himself, ' I wondor what, Dr. Blank has achiscd the Bristol physician in regaid to my case.' and giving way to curiosity, he opened the letter, and read: — 'Dear Doctor, — The beater is a fat Wiltfbhiie clothier ; make the most of him. — Yours, professionally, J. Blank,' Clutterbuck, the histoiian, tells the following anecdote of his uncle, who was a physician. One of his patient?, a nervous old lady, took it into her head to try the Bath waters. ' The very thing,' said the doctor : ' and I know an excellent physician there, bo whom I will ffi\e you a letter of introduction.' On the way, this patient was also overcome with cuiiosiby. ' The doctor has treated me foi a long time,' she said to her friend, ' but he has never told mo just what my case is. I have a mi«d to look in this letter, and see ii he describes ib there.' Opening the epistle she read: — 'Dear, sir, —Keep the old woman three weeks, and send her back.' It is only just to the medical profession to add a cop> of a letter sent by the great Doctor John Hunter, by means of a poor man, to an eminent physician : — ' Dear Brother, — The beaier needs your advice. He has no money, and you have plenby ; so you a>e well met. — Yours, John Hunter.'