12 WILD DICK AND 30 that doctors are generally aware, that the acquisition of extensive practice depends, in no small degree, upon their ability to hear, see, and say nothing. A village doctor is the depository of a great many contrary stories, which, lik^ the contrary winds, contained in the bag, presented by JEolus toOysses, would operate sadf' t<^his disadvantage, if he should suffer them get loosed The bosom of a physician should.rt^emble die bld lion’s den in the fable, into which many strange things were seen to enter, but from whence none ever returned. It need not be stated, that fanner Wild and his wife were getting into a bad way, and that Richard was not likely to be benefited bv the example of his parents. Pride will frequently operate whert all higher and holier motive will not.' Vicious inclinations are often restrained, in the presence of those, whom we fancy ignorant of our besetting sins. Thus it was with farmer Wild and his wife. jr* domestic explosion, produced by the ti the teapot, had completely broken $ as it were ; and, from that moment, 1
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