Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1910 — Asking Too Much. [ARTICLE]

Asking Too Much.

The country doctor had come to prescribe for Lucy, the colored cook's little daughter, who was suffering from the unfashionable ailment known as “chills." The doctor opened his saddle-bags and prepared several doses of the time-honored remeay, quinine in capsules. Lucy sat up in bed, watching the proceedings with great interest, as the doctor filled each tiny capsule and capped it. But when she heard the instructions, “Give her one of these every two hours,” she walled in terror: “Is you gwine to mek me swaller dem little glass bottles, stoppers an’ all’”