Show Mme as Doctor Colliers Weekly Once Marshal Le fell ill of an ague and his servant an old soldier caught the malady at the same time The servant was quickly cured but the fever clung to the marshal until it oc occurred occurred to his energetic duchess that the doctor had blundered like an ass a aby by giving the marshal the same doses as to a private soldier She rapidly counted upon her fingers the different rings of the military ladder Here drink this This is suited to your grade she said putting a full turn tum tumbler bier bler to her husbands lips And the duke having swallowed a dozen doses at one gulp was soon on his legs again Youve a great deal to learn my boy was the ladys subsequent remark to the astonished doctor |