“Well, I practice medicine, and take care of the sick.”
“Dew ye? Waal, do ye ever cure anybody?”
“O, sometimes; quite frequently, in fact.”
“Dew ye! waal, there’s a woman up here to Lake Village, ‘Squire Blaisdell’s wife, who has had the dropsy more’n twelve years; been filling’ all the time till they tell me she’s bigger’n a hogshead now, and she’s had a hundred doctors, and the more doctors she has the bigger she gets; what d’ ye think of that now?”
“Well, I practice medicine, and take care of the sick.”
“Dew ye? Waal, do ye ever cure anybody?”
“O, sometimes; quite frequently, in fact.”
“Dew ye! waal, there’s a woman up here to Lake Village, ‘Squire Blaisdell’s wife, who has had the dropsy more’n twelve years; been filling’ all the time till they tell me she’s bigger’n a hogshead now, and she’s had a hundred doctors, and the more doctors she has the bigger she gets; what d’ ye think of that now?”