NOT QUICK ENOUGH
A veterinary surgeon one day prepared a powder for a sick horse and gave it to his young assistant to administer. The assistant asked how it was to be done, and the surgeon gave him a large glass tube and told him to put the tube in the horse's mouth and blow the powder down its throat. A short -time afterwards there was a great commotion, and the surgeon rushed out to find his assistant in trouble. ' 'Where is that medicine?' he shouted. 'What is the matter?' The assistant coughed several times severely, and then spluttered : ' The horse blew fiist !'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 277
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103NOT QUICK ENOUGH New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 277
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