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Show Made the Doctor Jump. A large and lanky recruit drifted Into In-to the Nntlonol Guurd armory to give-his give-his service to his country. After he had gone through the necessary examination ex-amination as to his nge, parents, constitutional con-stitutional ability to walk through aena of mud, the color of his hair and1 eye and locality of tattoo marks and other preliminaries to a military career, the-examinlng the-examinlng surgeon took up a stethoscope stetho-scope and began listening to the recruit's re-cruit's heart, lungs, etc. This was a new experience for the boy. He had never seen a man with a stethoscope before, and had the Impression Impres-sion the doctor was denf and that the-stethoscope the-stethoscope was a pair of ear trumpets. trum-pets. Consequently, when the medical man said : "Ever have any consumption In your famlly7" the rookie picked up the en of the stethoscope dangling In front of the physician, and yelled into it a loud as he could : "No." The doctor Jumped a foot. A stethoscope stetho-scope s extremely delicate, and a roar like that nearly splits the ear drums. |