CHEATING THE DOCTOR.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4497, 4 June 1883, Page 2

CHEATING THE DOCTOR.

A celebrated physician in Vienna one day received a telegram from Cracow requesting him to repair.. thither-with'all haste, as Moses Abrahamson was very ill, and required advice.' This Moses was known to be one of the richest men of his tribe. The doctor, who had an enormous practice and .was very busy at the time, wired back: " My fee will be 2000 florins." A second despatch urged him to come without delay, but added that he might surely dp it for less. " Not a kreutzer less than 2000 florins," was the replp from Yienua; whereupon a final telegram came to- hand directing the physician to start at once. It was in the depth of winter,'aad bitterly e^ld. so that our medical man was anytlfjttg but pleased at the prospect of the long journey. But what was his disgust on being met at the Cracow railway station by a deputation of long-coated Polish Jews bringing the tidings that ho came too late as Moses Abrahamson hid died a few hours before. As there wai no train back to Vienna that day he was perforce compelled to put up for the night at an hotel. Meanwhile the news of the great doctor's arrival had spraad through the town, and sick people of every description, both Jews and. Christians besieged his door; So many afflicted persons touched his compassionate heart, and he freely gave them the advice they needed. When, at last, he got to the sta'ion, and was about to step into the carriage, a Polish Jew came silling up to him with a knowing smile on hia face, and whispered into his ear ' " I say, doctor, I only wanted to tell you that Moses Abrahamson ia'nt dead ; not a bit of it; he was among those patients whom you cured for nothing."—Daheim Kalender. .