Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — Ingratitude to the Doctor. [ARTICLE]

Ingratitude to the Doctor.

The doctors who are called up in the middle of the night at the risk of getting the pneumonia are just as liable to go without their pay when the danger is past, as though they were called in the day-time. One of them was one night aroused by a frightfhl knocking at his door. Sticking his head out of the window, he asked the matter. “Oh, doctor, it is my poor wife!” “ I beg your pardon, but I haven’t the honor of your acquaintance, and I am not accustomed ” “ I know it, doctor, but her life is at stake. If you only knew how much I love her. For Heaven’s sake, I beg y ou;” and he went on for a considerable time in this fashion, until the doctor relented, in spite of the cold winter night. He dressed himself, went out, waded far through the snow, prescribed and saved the cherished woman. Several days passed, and, hearing nothing of any pay, he sent in his bill. Nothing. Then he sent a collector. The devoted husband greeted the dun with anger, exclaiming, “Go to the devil I* The idea of my paying that bill for a woman who has since run off with another man I” An eminent surgeon was visited by a rich but stingy merchant, whose injured arm needed treatment, and it was feared he might have to have it taken off. The doctor, examining, declared that he could save it, and be did so. When he sent in his bill, the merchant, who was now well and brassy, cried out: “Thunder and guns, what a bill! There must be some mistake. Old Sawbones never cut off my arm at all!” The largest block of granite ever quarried in New England has been taken out at Woodbury, Vt. It was 230 feet long, 13 to 18 feet deep, 15 feet wide, weighed 4,080 tons, and required 673 wedges with 50 pounds of powder to start it.