Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — WHEN SCOTS TALK [ARTICLE]

WHEN SCOTS TALK

Dr. Abernathy, the Scotch surgeon, was a man of few words, but he once met bls match —In a woman. She called at his office in Edinburgh one day with a hand badly inflammed and - swollen. The following dialogue, opened by the doctor, took placer “Burn?'’ “Bruise." “Poultice.” The next day the woman called and the dialogue was as follows: "Better?” “Worse." “More poultice.” Two days later the woman made another call. “Better?” "Well. Feer “Nothing. Most sensible’ woman I* ever saw.”—Young’s Magazine.