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Show DIAGNOSIS BY AUTHORITY Georgia Darkey Knew That His "Gall Was Busted," but He Wanted to Find a Physician. In the bright sunlight on a railroad station in Georgia slept a colored brother. He snored, gently with his mouth ajar, and his long, moist tongue resting on his chest like a pink plush necktie. A northerner climbed of! the train to stretch his legs, unscrewed the top of a capsule and, advancing on tiptoe, dusted ten grains of quinine on the surface of the darkey's tongue. Presently the negro sucked his tongue back inside his mouth and instantly arose with a start and looked about him wildly. "Mistah," he said to the joker, "is you a doetah ?" "Nope."' "Welly then, kin yo" tell whar 1 kin fin' me a doctah right away ?" "What do you want with a doctor?''' doc-tor?''' "I'm sick." "How sick ?" "Powerful sick." "Do you know what's- the matter with you?" "Suttinly I knows whut's de mat-teh mat-teh with me mah gall's busted 1" Everybody's Magazine..' |