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Show NO MORE OF THAT MEDICINE Mary Had Her Mind Made Up as to Further Doses of Unquenchable Compound. A Yonkers, N. Y., physician had a negro cook who was a chronic corn-plainer. corn-plainer. One day she came in groaning groan-ing with a misery in her side and the doctor offered to prescribe for her. He went to the dining room, poured out a spoonful of game sauce, stirred in some English mustard and sprinkled sprin-kled on some cayenne pepper, and handed the dose to the sufferer, telling her to take it down at one swallow. It was two weeks or more before Mary turned up with a new pain. This time it was in her other side. Her employer offered to mix her another dose of his medicine. "No suh!" said Mary, firmly. "I'm much obliged to you, doctor; but Ise done got my mind made up never agin to drink nothin' what water won't squench!" Saturday Evening Post |