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Show Powerful Medicine. In one of the Black Hills camps a burly Cornishman was stricken with fever. His wife, being unskilled in medicines, bunted for a doctor, failing, fail-ing, however, after a long and patient search, to uiscover anything better than a veterinary surgeon. "What would you do, doctor," Bhe cried, "if your own wife was delirious with fever?" "Madam," said he, "I know no more than you. I can only cure horses and other brutes." "Well, doctor," she replied, "my husband's as Btrong as a horse. What would you do for a horse? and for heaven's sake tell me quick." "Madam, I should open his mouth, pull his tongue out on one side to prevent bis biting me, and give him this fever powder, paper, string and all." Blinded with tears of gratitude, the poor woman paid for the fever powder and departed. de-parted. It is said the man got well, but be has a bole in his tongue, and his wife has only three fingers on one hand. |