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Show Dr. Henry Thayer's Dilemma. Tho following utory, It Is safe to affirm, has never been seen In print: The late Dr. Henry Tlinyer, tho founder found-er of Thayer's laboratory In Cambridge, Cam-bridge, wns on his way to his office one winter morning In the early sixties six-ties when the sldewnlks wero a glare of Ice. Whllo going down Main street ho met a lady coining in the opposite oppo-site direction. The lady was a stranger lo him, although he wns not unknown to he-. , In trying to nvold each other on the Icy pnvement they both slipped, nnd camo fo the sidewalk facing each other, with their pedal extremities considerably entangled. Whllo the polite po-lite doctor was debating In his mind what was the proper thing to say or do under tho trying circumstances the problem wns solved by the quick-witted lady, who quietly icmarkcd: "Doctor. If you will be good enough to rise nnd pick out your legs, I will take whnt remains." Doston Herald. |