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Eighty pounds of the money I got from the Standard Bank in Newcastle for oxen sold to the owner of the store on the Ingagane Drift. The rest I had accumulated in fees from doctoring. I am a doctor amongst my own people. I come now to ask you to allow me to settle on your land as a refugee.
There was a double meaning in the query, and Champers caught both. "No ways," he responded. "Has some influence here?" the stranger asserted rather than questioned. "A lot. Has the whole town under hoodoo. It's named for him. He has all the doctoring he can do and won't half charge, so's no other doctor'll come here. That's no way to build up a town.
"I know, mother; but you and I have got to go on living!" "It's you I'm worrying about," said his mother. "I've been wondering if you hadn't better come back to Baltimore with me," mused Jason. "I can eke out a living somehow for the two of us." "No," said Mrs. Wilkins decidedly. "You've got burden enough to take care of yourself. I can get along till you're doctoring for yourself. Mr.
Selling his Dunchester practice for what it would fetch to his assistant, Dr. Bell, my father came to Madeira whither, I scarcely know why, I have also drifted now that all is over for me for here he hoped to be able to earn a living by doctoring the English visitors.
The cost of a first-class negro in the United States is about £800, and the interest on the capital invested in and the wear and tear of this human chattel are equal to 10 per cent., which, with the cost of maintaining, clothing, and doctoring him, or another 5 per cent, gives an annual cost of £45; and the pampered Coolies in the best paying of all the tropical settlements, Trinidad, receive wages that do not exceed on an average on the year round 6s. per week, or about two-fifths, while in the East Indies, with perquisites, they do not receive so much as two-thirds of this.
Miss Jinny, in her fine, last-season's dress, with the usual up-to-date hat on her scanty drab hair, and the twinkle of amusement at the continuous entertainment that life afforded her, was looking so well that Patricia voiced her wonder that she should have come to town for doctoring, as her letter had intimated. Miss Jinny chuckled huskily. "Don't you worry about that," she said, mysteriously.
Yes, I said; and what a delightful life they lead! they are always doctoring and increasing and complicating their disorders, and always fancying that they will be cured by any nostrum which anybody advises them to try. Such cases are very common, he said, with invalids of this sort.
By his friends John Silence was regarded as an eccentric, because he was rich by accident, and by choice a doctor. That a man of independent means should devote his time to doctoring, chiefly doctoring folk who could not pay, passed their comprehension entirely. The native nobility of a soul whose first desire was to help those who could not help themselves, puzzled them.
I say attempted, but as yet I cannot be sure that he did not succeed." "What!" exclaimed Ithobal, "was " and he stopped. "No, King, prince Aziel was not hit; the Lady Elissa took that shaft through her hand, and lies between life and death. I am doctoring her, and had it not been for my skill she would now be stiff and black as the rogue who shot the arrow."
At this last she looked him over closely. "You came out very young," she surmised. "When my father took me out of the medical school to put me into the ministry. I had a knack for doctoring. I ran away." "Why did you come to Africa?" "Didn't particularly. Started for Iceland on a whaling ship. Sailed the seven seas after the brutes. Landed on the Gold Coast and got left behind."
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