MEDICAL ADVICE.

“I’m very ill,” said Skinflint, once essaying

To get a doctor’s counsel without paying.

“I see it,” quoth the wily old physician;

“You’re in a most deplorable condition.”

“But tell me,” cried the miser, “for God’s sake,

Tell me, dear doctor, what I ought to take.”

“Take! as to that—why, take, at any price,”

Replied the leech, “take medical advice!”