Izzy goes fishing and catches naught but a terrible cold. Going to a druggist for something to cure it, the druggist's clerk, who is half asleep, gives him a large bottle of laudanum by mistake. On his way home Izzy meets a friend, tells ...See moreIzzy goes fishing and catches naught but a terrible cold. Going to a druggist for something to cure it, the druggist's clerk, who is half asleep, gives him a large bottle of laudanum by mistake. On his way home Izzy meets a friend, tells him about the cold and his cure for it. His friend tells him not to take laudanum but to take hot whiskey instead. This Izzy does and on his return home, takes the whiskey, throws his coat into a corner and goes to sleep soused. His coat falling, breaks the bottle of laudanum, the smell of which permeates the room. The druggist discovers his clerk's mistake, rushes with the doctor and a stomach pump to Izzy's home, finds (as they believe from the odor) that he has apparently been killed by the laudanum and pump him out only to find that he hadn't taken it after all. Written by
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