Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — A Sure Thing. [ARTICLE]

A Sure Thing.

A doctor who posed as something of a wit was passing a stone-cutter’s yard, when he stopped to speak to the proprietor, who was at work on a tombstone.

“Ah," said the doctor, “I suppose when you hear some one is ill you get ready for contingencies; though, of course, I suppose, you never go beyond the words, ‘ln memory of’ ” “Well, that all depends,” was the response. “If you be a-docloring of the patient I goes right on." —Harper’s Weekly.