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Show CONVEYED ONLY PLAIN TRUTH Advertisement of Boston Physician Merely Stated Facts Exactly as They Were. A Boston physician tells of a Doctor Reed who, in his time, was one of the prominent medicos of the Hub. His large practice included many patients outside the city limits, and these he visited in his buggy. One day Doctor Reed bought a new horse, with which he was much pleased until he discovered that the animal had an insurmountable objection objec-tion to bridges of all kinds, and could not be made to cross one. Inasmuch as at that period it was , necessary to cross certain bridges in order to reach any one of the surrounding sur-rounding towns, the doctor decided to sell the horse. . He did not think it necessary to mention the animal's peculiarity, pe-culiarity, but was much too honest to misrepresent him, and, after some thought, produced the following advertisement, ad-vertisement, which he inserted in a local paper: "For Sale. A bay horse, warranted sound and kind. The only reason for selling is because the owner is obliged to leave Boston." Blessed He the little flat In which there is no room for trouble. |