A Most Wonderful Cure.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2039, 1 August 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Most Wonderful Cure.

Turn* lived in London, once upon a time, a gout'e.nan whom I e'.rillcall Mr. Brov.n. This pen tinman was n greet wa^, and he had also a w«pl ',6=3 for practical jolriag. It so happensd fiat he wa° en old friend of Anthony Trolly p, p.nd one day it chanced thit he met Tio'lop , jaat outside the door of Holloway's shop in Oxford-street. " Ah 1 " Baid he to the eminent novelist, " I'm glad we've met. Would yon obl^G me by coming into this phop with mo ? ' The unsuspecting Trollope forthwith fc'i^fl ivuself ushered into the establishment 01 ?I«. Holloway, where twenty or thirty you"g rrpii were engaged in making up pills, '& • , bthind a handsome mahogany counter of !i; narently illimitable length. " I wiah to see Pi o'gpEor Holloway," cried Mr. Brown, in a lout? >o'lo. As he looked lil-o ft gentleman, nnrt a.ip irently was not easily to bo denied, he was mliered Blon^ tho eliip, followed by tht> Uu(orlnaa*B Trollop?. At tha end of the long co inter Iher, 5 wa3 a glass case, from which n. man emerged. "Are j on Professor Holloway?" said Mr. Bv.iwd, iuih an air of the deepest interest. " I am." " Then allow me to shako you by the hantj, sit ; and let me introduce my dietinguisl.fd fiiocd, He. Anthony Troilope, to yoj." Tae Piofessor bowed, looking both pu/ ?KA and flittwed. " And now, sir," said Mr. Bro "ht ma (ell you what it is that I of- to>oa. ?Jy i.ame ia BriggH Briggs of Ch^ebcs-.-'r— and hist week when I w*« onfc hu ting I broke one of my legs. Fortaoatalj. I h-id a l-.'X of your pills in my pooket ; I BwJlost \ iLree imm«ditt.tely, applied some of your ointment to the injuied limb as Boon as I reached home, and look at me now!" Before cipher Holloway or Trollope oould cjioulatc- a fcinj-'le word, the toi-disant " Mr. B-iy. ct Chichester" had jumped upon the pt\:-Liod counter, and was running at full ep' j ed alon«j it towards the outer door, where ha <iUfi.li. lil,; tiii ncd a som-rsault aad dis-ajpci.r-3v.i into Oxford rSrcct, leßving the (Hboor.sioiatc nuv( h;t to appease the irata Proles ] or t'ij best way he could.