'
"'All right, Henry,' said I; 'but I guess I'll go over and try my
luck.'
"The first man that I went to see was the one who had said to my
friend Henry that he thought he ought to have one day in the year to
rest. He was the biggest merchant in the town in my line. When I
reached his store he was putting the key in the door to lock up and go
home for his Thanksgiving dinner.
"I couldn't talk to him out there in the cold--we were strangers--so I
said to him, 'I should like to buy a couple of collars if you please.'
He sold me the collars and then, just for a bluff, I made out that
mine was hurting me and took a few minutes to put on another one. I
didn't say anything about what my business was and the merchant, in
order to have something to say, asked, 'Are you a stranger in town?'
"'Yes, sir,' said I, 'I am. But I hope that I shall not be very much
longer. I am out looking for a location.'
"'You are a physician, then?' said the merchant.
"'Yes, sir,--in a way,' said I; 'but I treat diseases in rather a
peculiar way, I fancy.
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