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He was so pathetically anxious for a patient, after he had put his

table in place, hung up his sign, and paid for an announcement in

the county paper and the little Walden sheet, that Kate was sorry

for hi the front porch when

a forlorn speci up the front walk

and asked to see Dr Holt Mrs Holt took hie his first patient had co weeds, but it paled perceptibly

as he started to the back porch to wash his hands

"Do you knoho it is, Mother?" he asked

"It's that old Peter Mines," she said, "an' he looks fit to drop"

"Peter Mines!" said George "He's had about fifty things the

matter with him for about fifty years"

"Then you're a h better so's he'll go round talking about it," said Mrs

Holt, shrewdly

George stood with his hands dripping water an instant, thinking

deeply

"Well said for once, old lady," he agreed "You are just exactly

right"

He hurried to his roo boom for me," he boasted to Kate as

he went down the hall