Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — A Lucky Invalid. [ARTICLE]

A Lucky Invalid.

The New York doctors charge a great deal more than do the Texas doctors. Col. Sumpter Mcßride Sumpter, of Austin, who w. s quite ill during his recent visit to New York, is our authority for the assertion. He was in bed three or four days at bis hotel, and when the bill was presented he took a piece of paper and a pencil and figured out how much more he had to pay in New York than he would have had to pay in Texas for the same amount of indispositon. Having got through his calculation, he folded liis hands resignedly and said: “I am lucky in being sick here in New York instead of being laid up in Texas.” “Ah!” said the doctor. “Yes,” responded Sumpter, “for all this money I’ll have to pay you I’d had to be sick in Texas for more than two months.” —Texas Siftings.