A now physician in a small town got himself into a serious predicament Boon after liis arrival by his inability to remember names and people. One day, while making out a patient’s, recipe, his visitor’s name completely escaped him. But not wishing to appear, forgetful, and thinking to get a clue, he-tasked her whether she spellod~.-her, name with an “o” or an u: >1 VJ\*. W The lady blushed-and replied, ‘‘Why, doctor, my name is Hill.” “Look:- here,” exclaimed the angry man as he rushed into the estate office, “that plot I bought from you yesterday is thirty feet under water I” “Pardon my oversight, apologised the gentlemanly agent. “We are'giving a diving suit with each plot, i will Sgnd yours- to you to-day.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2562, 24 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)
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124Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2562, 24 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)
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