Doctor:—“Well, Moses, what has happened?”
Moses:—“What has happened? My wife drank coal-oil.”
Moses, Jr.:—“Father, mother is calling for you constantly; do go in to her, so she will get quiet!”
Moses:—“The Lord have mercy! I should go to her? You go in first, Doctor.”
Doctor:—“Why shall I go in first?”
Moses:—“I have six children to support.”
Doctor:—“Well, and——?”
Moses:—“Well, and? you ask, Doctor, and yet you are a smart man. What if she should explode the moment I was with her?”
Lung Trouble
Countryman:—“Doctor, will you please prescribe a little something for me. I think something is wrong with my lung.”