A Basket of Chips: An Autobiography

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Philosophy and Hobbies a good fee for medical treatment, four times as much for your ignorance. If this was made a law the doctors would soon have to put up the shutters. It was my family doctor that helped me very much in a diet way. He was the nephew of my father-in-law. I was in a bad way after an internal operation." I called him up and told him my condition. He said, "Use plenty of coarse bran. You would know what to give a cow." From that day to this, eight years ago, I have used it at every meal, and most of the time I feel as though I could do Doug Fairbank? tricks. The feeling of health and strength is a priceless thing, and worthy of much study to secure it. From a Story of Labrador. - The government doctor found families dying of scurvy and there were plenty of plants grow- ing wild along the road in that vicinity that would have kept them in good health. THE NARROW ESCAPES During the time of my hunting and trapping period some- thing happened that came near to being a fatal accident. I had been cautioned by my father never to leave the gun loaded as that was the cause of so many accidents. Only once did I fail to observe this warning. I had returned from hunting and expected to go again soon, so I thought it not worth while to withdraw the charge. Some days went by and it was entirely forgotten. When I did decide to go again I brought the gun out to clean. My sisters were playing with dolls in a little summer house not many feet from the porch. A chicken was picking up crumbs that had been thrown out from the dinner table. Think- 11 Harwood is referring to a hernia operation he had in 191.4. 12 Douglas Fairbanks ( 1883-19 for his portrayals of athletic heroes. 39, the motion-picture star, was best known 15