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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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"There
are
some
things
a
man
can't
concede,
and
one
is,
that
a
man
who
has
broken
a
law,
like
a
man
who
has
broken
a
leg,
has
got
to
suffer
for
it."
It
was
only
with
the
greatest
difficulty
that
he
could
be
prevailed
upon
to
present
a
bill.
It
was
not
because
the
community
was
poor,
though
some
of
our
people
are
poor,
and
it
was
certainly
not
because
the
Doctor
was
rich
and
could
afford
such
philanthropy,
for,
saving
a
rather
unproductive
farm
which
during
the
last
ten
years
of
his
life
lay
wholly
uncultivated,
he
was
as
poor
as
any
man
in
the
community.
He
simply
seemed
to
forget
that
people
owed
him.
It
came
to
be
a
common
and
humorous
experience
for
people
to
go
to
the
Doctor
and
say:
"Now,
Doctor
North,
how
much
do
I
owe
you?
You
remember
you
attended
my
wife
two
years
ago
when
the
baby
came--and
John
when
he
had
the
diphtheria----"
"Yes,
yes,"
said
the
Doctor,
"I
remember."
"I
thought
I
ought
to
pay
you."
"Well,
I'll
look
it
up
when
I
get
time."
But
he
wouldn't.
The
only
way
was
to
go
to
him
and
say:
"Doctor,
I
want
to
pay
ten
dollars
on
account."
"All
right,"
he'd
answer,
and
take
the
money.
To
the
credit
of
the
community
I
may
say
with
truthfulness
that
the
Doctor
never
suffered.
He
was
even
able
to
supply
himself
with
the
best
instruments
that
money
could
buy.
To
him
nothing
was
too
good
for
our
neighbourhood.
This
morning
I
saw
in
a
case
at
his
home
a
complete
set
of
oculist's
instruments,
said
to
be
the
best
in
the
county--a
very
unusual
equipment
for
a
country
doctor.
Indeed,
he
assumed
that
the
responsibility
for
the
health
of
the
community
rested
upon
him.
He
was
a
sort
of
self-constituted
health
officer.
He
was
always
sniffing
about
for
old
wells
and
damp
cellars--and
somehow,
with
his
crisp
humour
and
sound
sense,
getting
them
cleaned.
In
his
old
age
he
even
grew
querulously
particular
about
these
things--asking
a
little
more
of
human
nature
than
it
could
quite
accomplish.
There
were
innumerable
other
ways--how
they
came
out
to-day
all
glorified
now
that
he
is
gone!--in
which
he
served
the
community.
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