School: Lear
- Location:
- Lear, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Gibson
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Some years ago there lived two doctors who were very fond of each other. Suddenly one of the doctors took ill and died. There two doctors were marries and the widow of the deceased doctor did not know how she would make a living. She struck a plan and she asked the other doctor to advertise pills that she would make out of oatmeal, so the doctor said he would advertise the pills for her.
After a few years this doctor took ill and was in hospital with a boil on his stomach and the doctors in the hospital could (not) do nothing for him and if looked as though he was on his death bed. This woman who made the oatmeal pills happened to come to see him one day and when she was leaving him she asked him "What about trying one of my pills"? and with that he gave a laugh and broke the boil that was on his stomach and he got all right.(continues on next page)
