Show THE COUNTRY DOCTOR R it usually requires ne requires quires a big fee to got get him out of bed in the summer of 1875 1 was so jo with a friend for a few weeks in a lita little tle fishing fashing village on the coast of maine says a correspondent of the detroit free press one night my friend was seized with a sudden and painful illness which necessitated my summoning the only doctor in the village who lived on a farm a mue mile distant from our hotel and who combined agriculture with the practice of medicine ne dicine I 1 aroused the sleeping physician c with some difficulty and stated my erran errand d but despite my im importunities importuna ties he flatly refused to leave his home as it was against a an n inflexible rule rifle to leave his home bome at night no matter how urgent the call however JIo wever he be generously consented to compound a mixture with which I 1 hastened back to the hotel where I 1 found my friend racked with pain and pleY pleading ding for medical attendance J I 1 again traversed the road to th the q doctors house and thundered at A t the bedoor door determined to foric force 4 or bribe the pul pill from his domicile when the identity of 0 the intruder was discovered the usually placid physician became irate and somewhat abusive in vaina vain I 1 urged the necessity of the visit arid and pleaded the cause of humanity finally 1 I offered any fee in or out of reason he might demand this gradually softened him and looking at me critically to see the full fall effect c cf his words lie he said young man if I 1 go up there y you on tonight to night it will cost you a penny 1 apprehensive of a mammoth fee beyond the resources of a comparatively slender purse I 1 queried somewhat timidly whit what would you charge to which with the same quizzical look fixed f on my face the answer slowly came if I 1 go up there tonight to night it will cost you one doll arand a half joyously consenting to the condition while concealing my amusement I 1 hastened home and by a recital of the story put the sufferer in such good humor that the doctor on his arrival anival found the patient so far on the road ii to recovery that two visits completed the restoration Sab subsequently I 1 learned that the fees charged the villagers during the doctors doctors exclusive practice among amoz them of four decades had been fifty cents cenis for calls made after nightfall and but half that sum for visits in tho the daytime |