The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-16
p DOCTORS OUTING.

and cronies at the grammar school in the
fine old city of -. Our friendship was
very fervent; it seemed to us as if it could
never fail but, on leaving the city, the
many crowding thoughts that press upon
young man on his entrance into the
world, if they failed to obiterate our boy
ish affection, left it, as it were, faint men,
cries of the past.
By a strange coincidence we met as fell
low-students at Guys. and our friendship
was renewed As it happened, being
masters of our own destiny, we resolved
to start together under the title OF Percival
and Mostyn, and we were fortunate
enough to secure the practice of the late
DIR. Woolley in the thriving town OF
N
Our practice was a success, and we were
fast securing an excellent position. We
had been much occupied and hard
worked, but, by one of those changes
which sometimes occur, we were sudden
~ left with little or nothing TO do. l was
employing this unwonted leisure in look
ing over some of those formidable items
of which our ledger presented a numerous
and gloomy record. | had been especially
totting up one account which had been
almost our earliest-a certain Mr.. Graves,
which had been marked doubtful" in
the second year, every doubtful in the
the third, and dad" in the fourth-when
who should present himself in our little
consulting room but the veritable Graves
himself.
Doctor" said he, II have come to pay
you that ere bin o mine. The figures
are vastly big 'uns, but il they were ever
so much bigger | amt the kind O. man
to grudge the amount, for have never
forgot the many journeys you have had to
see me and mine all across that common;
and how I've got the money together and
you shall have it, doctor. There it is,
957 los I'd, every halfpenny of which you
thoroughly deserve, and ought to have
had long ago" And emptying his canvas
bag on the table, he displayed the full
amount in shining metal to the uttermost
farthing.
Now, dare say, doctor, you had given
this up as bad Job before now; but We
had to save it, and here it is at last.
Whenever we've made a sale. my wife
claimed something for the doctor, and
when once she got hold of it there was no
getting it back. Now didn't you give US
up, doctor"
"Well, 1 must confess, Graves, our faith
had somewhat begun to waver, but we
won't say anything more about that" and
alter trying the merits of our old ale
"wetting both eyes," as he called the sec
ond tankard-he started Off triumphantly.
couldn't help thinking of the labori-
Gus honesty with which these people must
have amassed this money, and with what
a one-sided view one is apt to look upon
the items of ledger. The money still
lay upon the table, when Ned came in
accompanied by our friend, Capt Will
loughby. our nearest and best neighbor.
spirit of Plutus and shade of CrGsusv'
exclaimed he; 'the treasure cave of Ali
Baba and the forty thieves exhibited
Sesame is the word, believe; l hope
shan't forget it and be hanged, drawn and
quarteredl But how is this, old boy?"
"Four-year-old Graves" said l what
do you think of that, old fellow And l
was thinking, Ned, as things are dull, the
case-book very light, and yourself full of
business energy, | would take turn my
self this very night and hear APP Thomas,
the harpist, of whom l have heard good
account"
Capital idea, old boy; so you shall.
But what a night you have chosen 1t
SHOWS and it s.eets, it rains and it blows,
and does all imaginable bad things In the
way of weather"
YES" said Willoughby; sit mustn't be
tonight, doctor, for the ride in your trap
to Ms worth much more than you
can expect to get for it. !"
''Oh, as far that, don't mind weather.
81 dare say not but-happy thought
you shall have my brougham and the
grays, and Reeve shall drive you. He'll
run you over in style. Don't say no, for
l insist upon it. They have done nothing
lately. and l know it will enhance your
comfort at any rate"
81 second the kind proposal" said Ned !;
and the thing seemed so pleasant that
could not refuse.
''Well, my dear fellow. il is settled, then,
that l am to be swell tonight. But can
not you be my companion, Willoughby
The grays will travel none the worse for
having their own kind master behind
them"
"No, no; you shall have them all alone,
and feel it comfort to think you will
have them. But pray take away this lit
tie lump OF gold. 1t makes me sad to look
at it, and one cannot help thinking that
medical education must not only
give its possessors the requisite
knowledge, but endue them with
the chivalrous sense of duty which places
them beyond, far beyond, even the glories
of a soldier. Just look what fellows like
YOU have to contend with, Here before
us is a reward of about two years slavery
to this one casel Well do [ remember
this same Graves, for did you not have TO
leave our skating party-that glorious re-
union wei had counted on for a whole
month-and did you not have to forego
the bav horse Cosmos and the hunt for
the same party? Now, there must be
something beyond earning livelihood in
all this; for, not to speak about the aw-
full risk of levers and all that kind OF
thing, you have had to take about 120
! Journeys for this one solitary case. | say,
old fellow, that you are an ill-paid class.
''Well, that's a one-sided view of the
case" said Ned. ASK the public and
they will tell you that we are money
seeking, overcharging race, and that our
claims deserve to be paid the last Of all
claims"
.Why, where's your interest for your
money even all these four years."
"Oh we've not been without our inter
est" said l. ''Old Graves has helped the
commissariat very considerably. There
has been turkey for Christmas every
wear, not to say anything about sucking
pig. new-laid eggs and a hundred other
trities of that Kind"
''May they continue, old fellow, in in
creased proportion, say /. "
In dine time n sDlendid pair of grays