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 of his colleagues—to decline his fee for the ervices he had rendered them. So he proceeded with a mile, ‘Indeed, doctor, your delicacy is exceive; but it hall not prevent me from conidering myelf as your debtor, and acknowledging my obligations for the kind aitance you have afforded us.’ She then forced a gold nuff-box upon him, which the phyician, however, would receive only as a fee before-hand; and, let he hould dioblige a good patient, he no longer contradicted her. He moreover eaily olved the riddle to his own atisfaction, by uppoing the whole family to be infected with a pecies of vapours, in which trange and incomprehenible flights of the imagination are by no means uncommon—o he precribed plenty of mild evacuants.

Doctor Springsfeld was none of your heavy helples phyicians, who poes no other talent for conciliating their patients’ hearts, beides praiing their own pills and electuaries. He was well vered in the ecret