The Company Doctor: An American Story (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The rarefied air was clear and bracing (fo Myrtle stood feet above tide-water), am the men were a jolly set, joking and chattin gayly with the women and girls. The latter, toc were full of life, being as a rule hearty an strong, with ruddy cheeks, and frames betoken ing great powers of endurance. But in tha group of forty or fifty persons were half a doze cripples. This lad, hobbling around with a crutch has lost a leg; so has that man yonder, and tha other one leaning against the telegraph-pole The brawny, rawboned Irishman lighting hi pipe in the doorway - Patrick Burney he is, an a very important man too - had his left ey blown out ten years Since in an explosion, and hi friend, Mike Boyle, striding up and down th track, had an arm mashed three years ago next month; and it had to come off.

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