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You didn't give your mule any oats this morning. He would not be satisfied until I pretended to shoe him. Alec had great resentment for Jimmy because when Alec was a camel in the London Zoo Jimmy used to prevent the ladies and the kids from giving him sweets. When Jimmy said:
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I never saw the man before, Alec replied indignantly,
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I'm no man. I'm a sacred camel, and I won't be interfered with by an ordinary, common mule, like you.
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My God, I'm killed. I said to another man in the ward:
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There's murder. He said:
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How do you know? I replied:
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I have seen death a few times.
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I was an eye-witness of the assault on D----.
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You have been reported to me repeatedly,
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By whom? I asked,
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By patients,
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Surely, I remarked,
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Oh, but, he said,
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I am an old man and the father of a family.
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Doctor, I continued,
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What do you mean?
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In California lately, I replied,
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A superintendent of an insane asylum has been accused of murder, arson, rape and peculation. This man, too, was more than fifty, had a mother, a wife and children, and belonged to a profession which ought to be more sympathetic with a patient than the church with its communicants. When a man will stoop to such crimes, is it not possible that there is a form of mental disease called partial, periodical paralysis of the faculty humane, and was not Robert Louis Stevenson right when he wrote _Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde_?
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Don't you dare to tell anybody about this interview.
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Mr. Kelly; You have been in this hospital for years. The socks and suspenders which should go to the patients are divided impartially between you and the other attendants. Of the four razors, which lately arrived for patients, two are in your trunk, one you sent to your brother in Ireland, and the fourth you keep in the ward for show, in case the doctor should be coming around.
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There's going to be a beat tonight. The King turned pale, and hurriedly ordered the men in the ward to bed, so that he could read the note. Before reading it he handed it to a doctor, to be sure to get the credit of stopping the beat as soon as possible. The doctor read it and gave the King the laugh. In the morning, when the doctor made his rounds, Mr. Kelly said to him:
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We have one or two funny men in the ward who, instead of robbing decent people, could have made their fortunes at Tony Pastor's. The result was that the doctor put me down for three or four new delusions. Knowing the Celtic character thoroughly I used to crack many a joke on the King. I would say to another patient, as the King passed:
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If it hadn't been for Kelly we should have escaped that time sure.