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This went on for a week, when Mr. Cuthbertson 

 remarking upon the lateness of the hour at which he 

 appeared remonstrated with him upon his conduct. 

 " But, my dear sir," said Tom, " I don't get my 

 breakfast until i o'clock, how can I come earlier?" 

 " Get your breakfast earlier," responded the mer- 

 chant. " How can I," was the answer, " I don't get 

 up until past 1 2." " Then get up earlier," responded 

 Mr. Cuthbertson. " How can I," said Tom, " when 

 I don't go to bed until daylight ?" Further argu- 

 ment was deemed useless, and thereupon Tom Old- 

 field left the employ of the venerable merchant. 



JOHN S. BARTLETT, M. D. 



Dr. John S. Bartlett was the fourteenth President 

 of the Society, elected 1847 and served for one year 

 only. He was born in Dorsetshire, England, A. D. 

 1790, and took up his residence in New York on his 

 arrival in this country. He was a graduate of the 

 Edinburgh College of Physicians A. D. 1820. For 

 some years he edited the *' Albion " newspaper, and 

 among his many publications we find "The Physi- 

 cian's Pocket Synopsis," Boston, 1822, "A letter to 

 the President, Counsellors and Fellows of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Medical Society" (of which he was a 

 member), Boston, May 31st, 1837. In 1833 he re- 

 sided at Concord, Mass., but returned to New York 



