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Show Not Due to Ignorance. Dr. Briggs received a note from a farmer living back quite a ways in the country, requesting him to come as quickly as possible to see his child who was very sick with "a very bad cold." The doctor examined the child and then turned to the mother. "Don't you know," he asked, "that your little girl is coming down with the measles?" "Yes, doctor," was the woman's reply, re-ply, "I knew she was." "Then why in the world," asked the doctor, "did you write me that she had a very bad cold?" The woman hesitated, for a moment, then, looking at her husband, said, with sullen frankness: "Neither him nor me knew how to spell 'measles.' " National Monthly. |