The doctor looked wise: — "A slow fever," he said: Prescribed sudorifics, — and going to bed. "Sudorifics in bed," exclaim'd Will, "are humbugs! I've enough of them there, without paying for drugs!"

In: Helen and Lewis Melville, An Anthology of Humorous Verse, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen, Dodd, Mead & Company 1924