He's pretty bad, I'm 'fraid, and the old lady's considerable upsot about him.

If you just come down and kind of take an observation, so's we could sort of get our bearin's, as you might say, 'twould be a mighty help to all hands." "But where's your town physician?
Hasn't he been called ?" The Captain explained.

He had inquired, and he had telegraphed, but could get no word of Dr.Parker's whereabouts.
The great Boston specialist listened to Captain Hiram's story in an absent-minded way.

Holidays were few and far between with him, and when he accepted the long-standing invitation of Mr.Ogden Williams to run down for the week end he determined to forget the science of medicine and all that pertained to it for the four days of his outing.

But an exacting patient had detained him long enough to prevent his taking the train that morning, and now, on the moment of his belated arrival, he was asked to pay a professional call.