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After a month's work in intensely warm weather a gardener in the suburbs

became ill, and the anxious little wife sent for a doctor, who wrote a

prescription after examining the patient. The doctor, upon departing,

said: "Just let your husband take that and you'll find he will be all

right in a short time."



Next day the doctor called again, and the wife opened the door, her face

beaming with smiles. "Sure, that was a wonderful wee bit of paper you

left yesterday," she exclaimed. "William is better to-day."



"I'm glad to hear that," said the much-pleased medical man.



"Not but what I hadn't a big job to get him to swallow it." she

continued, "but, sure, I just wrapped up the wee bit of paper quite

small and put it in a spoonful of jam and William swallowed it

unbeknownst. By night he was entirely better."



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