DOCTOR BOLUS AFTER DINNER.
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After dinner Doctor Bolus went to visit a very poor woman, who was sick with a lung fever, and all
His next visit was to Susan Blake, a little girl of ten years old, who was very sick, and could not recover. She had one sister, and they were orphans. It was hard indeed for them to part, but they both knew
Doctor Bolus was next called to pull a tooth for a little girl, (see frontispiece,) and then went to see Joe Glutton as he was called. Joe well deserved the name for his greediness; a day or two before he had slily climbed up to a dish of sweetmeats, and eaten very freely of them; that night he was taken severely sick, and was obliged to take much bitter medicine. This was not the
The next place was at the carpenter’s,
Next he called to see a little girl who had been sick for several days with a violent fever; he had been afraid she would die, but now found
The Doctor had now finished his calls; but as he was walking home he was called to a young lady who had been with a party of young people, sailing on the pond, and in reaching
