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Persons in search of light, amusing holiday reading will do well to avoid this book, which is a collection of short anecdotes and sketches from an American doctor's _notebook. Here is a typical specimen: It is called "Feet and Boxes":
T examine the patient's legs, which ave covered with ulcerations—This is nothing, doctor. You know I am a driver, and often happens that the ' clerks, when they are in a hurry, throw boxes and packages on my fect, especially if there is no more Yoom on the wagon. Of course, my shin-bones get hurt every. day and are always sore. They never heal. But this is nothing, I would not have come to you for such a trifle. I meant to tell you that I have a cold.
Here is another:
The mother takes her utile girl of three to the large stores to buy her Christmas presents. The stores are crowded, the air is unbearably hot and stuffy and pei serious. For hours the child is dragged hither and thither. As scon as they reach home she becomes iti and within a few days,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.