Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — What Instrument He Played. [ARTICLE]

What Instrument He Played.

A Providence doctor, the other day, engaged to teach a young college graduate the practical art of healing the sick. He was called to a German who was down with delirium tremens, and asked him his age and his business, and learned that he was a musician and 40 years old. The learned doctor then told his student that all brass instruments were so severe a tax upon the player’s larynx that the throat frequently needed a little wetting in the form of beer or- brandy, a sad result of which fact was the patient before him. The latter was asked what instrument he played. He answered, “ I blays second viddle most always.” The doctor collapsed.