THE NEW DOCTOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1550, 10 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE NEW DOCTOR.

By Pajrmenas Mix.

Through the " Philadelphy" college he vent in a week, He had lots of assurance— in other words, cheek, And his manner of study was rather unique. Yet the fact is, After hearing the regular lectures, which stuck To his mind like the rain on the back of a duck, He got a diploma and instantly struck For a practice. A neighbourhood clear in the rear of the age, Where a man was accepted at once as a sago, Who could show a diploma, he chose as his stage, Of endeavour.' And soon an old farmer, with plethoric purse, Who had long been afflicted, but now_had grown worse, Was able to take a short ride—in a hearse, Cured for ever. But he didn't go there, as he moodily said, To cure hopeless oases and raise up th« dead, And he left for the side of an invalid's bed Who was ailing With pains in his back, and L he gave him six pills, Intended for patients with ague or ohills, And the folks who resided just over the hills Heard him wailing! But, as fully two-thirds of the patients who call On the doctor would mend with no doctor at all, Oar hero made friends 'mong the great and the small And the wealthy. And, learning the whims of the clas#who suppose That there's in the touch of a doctor's old clothes, And who swallow some drugs if they bleed at the noae, Kept them healthy. — Detroit Free JPreu.