Doctor (after examining him):—“You go quietly home, my man; as long as you will live, your lung will hold out all right.”
How He Got Home
Dr. Schneider was awakened at midnight by a stranger who asked him to come to a patient at a little town two hours distant. “It is very urgent,” added the messenger. The Doctor had his team brought around, and drove away with the stranger. Arrived at the town, the man jumped from the buggy, saying: “I am very much obliged to you, Doctor. I was dead tired and did not know how to get home, so I thought of you and your team. Now I shall be at home in a few minutes. I hope you will get home all right.”
Out of Joint
Augusta:—“Well, Ricke, I tell you it is dreadful to be a servant in a Doctor’s family? Just think, every morning his bones are scattered all over the room!”
Ricke:—“Good gracious! Does the man take himself apart every evening?”
Patience
Minister (at a sick bed):—“Just have patience, my good woman; all will be well.”
Old country woman:—“It’s easy to talk, sir, but I should just like to know what I have done. Lots of people die so easy, and it’s killing me!”