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Show THE DOCTOR'S MISTAKE. Dr.' Edward Peck tells of a brothes physician phy-sician of a miserly disposition who recently re-cently had the financial tsbles cleverly turned on him. He had never been known to refuse a fee. no matter hew ill prepared the patient rss to pay It. There was a certain patkrt re had attended for a long time, receiving his two dollars regularly every morning when he called. One morning, morn-ing, however, it was not handed to him. When it was not forthcoming he pretended pre-tended to search r.bout the floor. "What .re you looking for. doctor?" inquired in-quired the sick man. "For mv fee," was the reply. "Not finding find-ing it In my hand, I srspect I must have dropped it." . "No, doctor, no, you hnve made a small mistake. It Is I who have dropped It." New York Herald. |