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Show owwwvww::v'wvwwvo J His First Call J ' Prosperous Physician Rilatee Amusing Experience of His r ty rlv Days. ovwvvwwvv::wv-wwvwo Dr. Uoone, whose reminiscences of the Lost Cause Interest many llstrtrrh at several New York clubs where hi Is a frequent visitor, told a good about bis first patient. His slilcde bad been a target for tho elements tor six months. "It was not because the town of Fiy-ette, Fiy-ette, Mo was so distressingly hcalibr." be said. "All my professional brethren wero doing well while I walled.. "My office was on the second tr of a shop, and I could hear what vss going on below. One night a msa pi-loped pi-loped bis horse In front of t tie hmae and halloed to the shopman. Wn tha shopman answered, the mat on horseback asked him If he tliourlit 'Doe Boone' was In his office. "The shopman assured him thai 1 waa upstairs. The horsemui dismounted dis-mounted and bitched his nag. 'At last!' I mused, as most any youm e-lor e-lor would have done under Hie clrcwi-tancoa. clrcwi-tancoa. "Then I began thinking of sll tha ailments which human flesh Is h'irto, and as each recurred to ma I tbouht of what I would prescribe for It I never thought so rapidly as I M between be-tween the time of that man's dliowmt and his knock at my door. As s be came In I recognised him. " 'Hello, Doc,' was the salutation. The abbreviation wits common In thoas days. 'All alone?' bo aaked. " 'Obstetrics,' 1 said to myself. 1 said to hlrn that I had been alone until un-til he appeared. " 'I was Just on my way to a dance down the road,' he went on to explain, 'and Just before I got here I discovered the I had changed my trousers. Ijoua ic L dollar, Due.' "And that was the result of a six months' wall for my first patient! My visions vanished. "Well, I had a dollar and 1 let him have It. I didn't aee lilin for several months; the next time he showed up he had a load of wood to sell. I bought It After the furl was delivered 1 asked him what I owed him. " 'Oh,' he replied, 'Just call It even, Doc, on that dollar you loaned me.' "I congratulated myself until I found that the wood was green elm, and If you know anything about wood you might as well try to Are asbestos aa lo fire, green elm. Oh. yes, I remember remem-ber my rtrsl cull." New York Sun. |