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Show WHEN SCOTS TALK. j Dr. Abernathy, the Scotch surgeon, was a man of few words, but he once met his match In a woman. iihe called at his office in Edinburgh one day with a hand badly lnfiammed and swollen. The following dialogue, eea- , ed by the doctor, took place: "Burn?" J "Bruise." I I "Poultice." J The next day the woman calle the dialogue was as follows: I "Better?" j "Worse." 1 "More poultice." Two days later the woman made V other call. s "Better?" 1 "Well. Fee?" 1 "Nothing. Most sensible woman I ever saw." Young's Magazine. |