THE DOCTORS ALL TOLD HIM TO REST!
By Berton Braley and Cartoonist J. Campbell Cory.
The patient was most neuras
thenic; The doctors all told him to rest,
To live in a manner hygienic
"Don't work" was the cure
they'd suggest,
"Don't read and don't plan and
don't worry,
Don't scheme and don't dream
and don't think. "
Such things put your brain in a
flurry.
Just loaf in a hammock and
blink."
So, giving up all occupation,
The patient iust "resd" h's
brain;
But somehow the new situation
Seemed almost -.to .drive him in
sane. His -mind woutdrt rest for a
minute.
And having-ib business to do,
All sorts of qeer .fancies came
in it.
And all of the world looked
askew.
He thought he was certainly
dying
With every disease that plays
hob,
So, al of the. doctrs defying,
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