Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — The Doctor Outdone. [ARTICLE]

The Doctor Outdone.

Scottish shrewdness Is occasionally overmatched by Irish wit The hand ful df people who Inhabit a certain lit tie island In the Atlantic, off the coast of Donegal, enjoy so much health and so little wealth that there Is no doctor on the spot In rare cases of emergency a physician is brought in a boat from the nearest village on ths mainland. On one ooc&Bion some islanders who were obliged to summon the doo tor found that he had gone to Dublin on business. As the case was un gent, they invoked the services of an other practitioner. This gentleman was a Scotsman, with the proverbial canniness of his race, and he declined to undertake the voyage unless he received his fee—a golden sovereign—in advance. There was no help for it, and the money was paid. The physician went - to the Island and attended to' the case. But when he inquired for a boat to take him away he found that not a boatman on the island would ferry him bade again for any less consideration than two pounds, paid In advance. The doctor had to part with the two sovereigns and to admit that he had been beaten at hls own game.