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- DOCTOR GOLDSMITH
- THERE was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Goldsmith. He
- wrote many delightful books, some of which you will read when you are
- older.
- He had a gentle heart. He was always ready to help others and to share
- with them anything that he had. He gave away so much to the poor that
- he was always poor himself.
- He was sometimes called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be a
- physician.
- One day a poor woman asked Doctor Goldsmith to go and see her
- husband, who was sick and could not eat.
- Goldsmith did so. He found that the family was in great need. The man
- had not had work for a long time. He was not sick, but in distress; and,
- as for eating, there was no food in the house.
- "Call at my room this evening," said Goldsmith to the woman, "and I
- will give you some medicine for your husband."
- In the evening the woman called. Goldsmith gave her a little paper box
- that was very heavy.
- "Here is the medicine," he said. "Use it faithfully, and I think it will do
- your husband a great deal of good. But don't open the box until you reach
- home."
- "What are the directions for taking it?" asked the woman.
- "You will find them inside of the box," he answered.
- When the woman reached her home, she sat down by her husband's side,
- and they opened the box. What do you think they found in it?
- It was full of pieces of money. And on the top were the directions: —
- "TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NECESSITY REQUIRES."
- Goldsmith had given them all the ready money that he had.
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