Doctor—Buy Branch’s Alligator.
Patient—What kind of medicine is that?
Doctor—It ain’t medicine. It is a pepper.
Patient—What kind of pepper?
Doctor—A darn funny pepper.
Patient—How can that cure the piles and dyspepsia?
Doctor—It will make you laugh and cry at the same time, and move your bowels, and it actually gave one of my patients the diarrhœa and hysteric cramps in the stomach last week.
Patient—Where can I find it?
Doctor—At any depot in the city.
Patient—I will try it. How much shall I pay you for your medical advice?