Show made the doctor jump A large and lanky recruit drifted into the national guard armory to give his bla service to hla his country after he had gone through the necessary examination as to his age parents con ability to walk through seas of mud the color of his hair and eyes and locality of tattoo marks and other preliminaries s to a military career the examining surgeon took up a stethoscope and began listening to the recruits heart lungs etc ai 1 this was a new experience for the boy he had never seen a man inan with a stethoscope before and had the imbres slon the doctor was deaf and that the stethoscope was a pair of ear trumpets consequently when the medical man said ever have any consumption in your family the rookie picked up the end of the stethoscope dangling in front of the physician and yelled into it as loud as he could no the doctor jumped a foot A aletho stethoscope Is extremely delicate and a roar like that nearly splits the ear drums |