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bananas, I returned, heartily pleased with my suc- 

 cessful practice, in the collection of the fee, to wait 

 the result oh the patients. On the third day after- 

 wards I received ward that the one afflicted with. 

 consumption had died, as I had predicted ; and 

 that the other was fast getting well, so that no 

 further medicines would be required, and therefore 

 the value in money would be equally acceptable. 

 For declining to accede to this proposition I plead 

 the usages of my country, but it was not satisfac- 

 tory ; and I was afterwards informed that it was their 

 sanguine intention to shoot me the first time I 

 passed that way. 



