Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-20
Value of q Parrots Leg .

nesia, and lived on bread and milk. The
next week was no better-nor the next;
and ss the month was coming to close,
l was determined to shut up shop and 20
as an assistant, when servant came in
for a shilling's worth of the best mag
nesia and some smelling-salts, and took
my card. Next day he called again,
and bought some powdered starch, and
had bit of talk. A day or 80 after, I
had just cleaned my place and self,
when in came, in hurry, my new friend
the livery servant. He said his mistress
wished to see me as. soon as possible, on
something very pressing. asked him if
l must 60 as vast
Put on your Sunday coat" said he,
land go with me-"
Invent with him to a great house in
Portman Square, and was shown up stairs
into splendid drawing-room. A mid
die aged lady, of much suavity and
graciousness, soon entered, and apollo
gized to me, but hoped, from what her
servant said Of me, should not be Of
Tended.
Thought she little knew nv feelings
to imagine should be offended at being
sent for, and assured her I should be
most happy to render any service in my
power.
She told me she had favorite parrot
that had broken its leg, and she had ask
ed the doctor who attended her to help
to set it, and he had felt himself insulted
at being called .ird-doctor. She said
she had no intention to insult him, and
only wished for information what to do.
She told me if I would set her birds leg,
and charge her the same as for setting
her own, were 1t broken, she would be
most happy to employ me.
I thought the terms proposed too liber-
al, but she insisted on no less, and l con.
sented. Some slips of whalebone and
little tape enabled us to set the creatures
leg, and / attended my first patient with
an assiduity and carefulness which I
have not since surpassed. A fortnigkt's
services were rendered, and my patient
restored. The lady now insisted on my
making out my bill against her. I did
so, and charged her what she had bid me
the usual sum for setting such a ladyis
leg. trembled when I gave it to her.
1t was ten guineas. She thanked me and
presented nae with twenty-saying that
the other ten were for my modesty, civil
ity, and Kindness. ~. ..
She then remarked that she had an op-
portunity of making my acquaintance
and esteeming my abilities, and, if agreea.
BILE to me, she would engage me as her
family physician; for her former doctor
had had many hundred pounds from her,
and might have shown q little kindness
to her bird; but as he had made his for
tune, he could do without her patronage,
and she preferred to give 1t where it was
appreciated, and was servicesble. /
blushed, and unhesitatingly Informed her
that my residence and position were not
equal to the station she was going to put
me in. She told me all that would be
bettered, and she saw I was deserving of
it. She babe me look out for better
residence, and promised she would help
me to the necessary furniture and fittings.
She told me the amount for medical at
tendance on herself and her household
was never less than eighty or hundred
pounds year, and that she could secure
several families. I took house, she did
all that she promised, and laid the sure
foundation for my future prospects. She
was my constant friend until she died,
and left me something handsome in her
will. -! 81. >
have retired from business, and my
fortune all arose from setting that parrots
leg.