Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — Wouldn’t Have It. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn’t Have It.

Physician—You are a very sick man, Colonel, and I’m going to prescribe for you. let me see—five drops of capsicum in a gill of water. You will take ” Tbe Colonel (interrupting)—Another bath, is it? Physician—Oh, no. This is to be taken internally. You will take ” The Colonel (again interrupting)— Never, Do tor, never. Physician— But you must. The Colonel (emphatically)— Never, sir! Do you want to kill me ? Confound it, sir, I haven’t taken that much water in my whole life! . nd then the Colonel turned his face to the wall and defiantly whistled “Old Kentucky Home.” —Pittsburgh Dispatch.