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dent that had happened to him and his
medicine bag, a universal titter went
through our ranks. :

I must tell you about that accident.

The doctor was visiting a sick girl.
The girl -was not very much unwell.
There was some trouble about her throat.
She had taken a little cold, I believe.
The pulse having been learnedly and
solemnly felt, the tongue carefully and
mysteriously examined, and the whole
catalogue of questions used in such cases
gravely and leisurely put, the doctor was
beginning to rummage his saddle-bags
for the necessary medicines. He had
the heavily-loaded magazine on his knee.