DOCTOR: You can eat exactly what you please. This medicine will put you right. It is a very strong, dark red tonic. Do you understand about the pills, now?
MRS. R.: She's a nice woman, and it's sad to see her strugglin' along by 'erself wiv that boy to keep. And so I told 'er——
DOCTOR: Send her round to see me. You'll get your medicine from the dispenser.
MRS. R.: About me wrists, Doctor: I find that one is thicker than——
DOCTOR: Come and see me again when you've finished that medicine. Pay outside.
MRS. R.: And, Doctor, is there anything more besides the physic? I thought perhaps you would give me a pill.
DOCTOR: I am giving you three pills. One of them I want you to take when you get in, another at night, and——
MRS. R.: About the money, Doctor: I s'pose as it'll do if I pay next week?
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THE TUSKERS