How He Got The Best Of The Doctor

"I s'poso you have heard of Doctor Auiesbury, haint you ? " " I never have." " Well, then I'll te]! you. One day I met the doctor over in Simkin's shop, buy ing groceries. It was awful cold. I feit a linie hoarse, and uiy tongue was rather f'urry ; :o roys I, iny head feels a little achisli like ; what do you think I'd better do?" Says he, " Friend S , the best tliing you can do is to go straight home, and soak your f'eet and take a sweat, 'cause if you don't you uiiglit have a fever." Says I, " Doctor, I was jast thinking a sweat would do me good, and now I guess I'll do it. " So home I went and drank a bowl of tansy tea, and if I didn't sweat like a beavor, it's no matter. The next morning my head was as olear as a boíl, and I was well again. Well, a day or two afterwurd I niet the doctor, and says he : " Neighbor S., I bave a suiall bill against you." I looked at hiru, and says I : "Abill?"andsayshe; " Yes, a bill for advice, you know, at Simkin's shop the other day." What do you think he charged? why, ono dollar for telling me to go home and take a sweat. " Well, doctor," says I (because I would not appeur small, you know), " it's all rijiht, and I'll bear it in mind." Wol!, a few days after, the doctor was passsing by luy door in his chaiee, and somehow or other, one of the wheels got a little loose ; so says I : "Doctor, if you don't drive that lynchpin in in inch, the wheol might como off." Says he : "I thank you," and he drove in the pin. Well, I went into the house and just made a charge of it. When I met him again I presented him the bill. 'l Helio! what on earth is thi?" said he. "Why, that's for advice." " Advice ! for what ? " says he. "Why, for driving in your wheel pin, and I have just charged you a dollar and a quarter." "Well," says he, "the difference betweenyour bill and mine is justtwenty-five cents. " ïhat's all you owe me," says I. " Well, I'll bear tin mind," says he. Uut the doctor is as tight as a caadle mold, and I guess he is able to bear it in mind.