Strona:Jerome K. Jerome - Trzej ludzie w jednej łodzi.djvu/20

knee. Why I have not got housemaid‘s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I have got“.
 And I told him how I came to discover it all.
 Then he opened me and looked down, me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn‘t expecting it — a cowardly thing to do, I call it — and immediately afterwards butted me with the side of his head. After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
 I did not open it. I took it to the nearest chemist‘s, and handed it in. The man read it, and then handed it back.
 He said he didn‘t keep it.
 I said:
 „You are a chemist?“
 He said:
 „I am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, I might be able to oblige you. Being only a chemist hampers me“.
 I read the prescription. It ran:
 „1 lb. beefsteak, with
 1 pt. bitter beer
 every 6 hours.
 1 ten-mile walk every morning.
 1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don‘t stuff up your head with things you don‘t understand“.