Off-Hand Sketches, a Little Dashed with HumorArthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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Off-Hand Sketches, a Little Dashed with Humor
Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Fiction; Short stories
Dr. S-- was right in his mode of treating the disease after all,
and did not err in supposing that it would reach the predisposition.
The cure was effectual. H-- kept quiet on the subject, and bore his
shaved head upon his shoulders with as much philosophy as he could
muster. A wig, after the sores made by the blister had disappeared,
concealed the barber's work until his own hair grew again. He never
ventured upon wine or brandy again for fear of apoplexy.
When the truth leaked out, as leak out such things always will, the
friends of H-- had many a hearty laugh; but they wisely concealed
from the object of their merriment the fact that they knew any thing
more than appeared of the cause of his supposed illness.
THE END.
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