He was always on the alert, looking up the sick, and all such as were supposed to need his counsel.

His remedial prescriptions embraced four articles.

For diseases of the body, _Epsom salts and castor oil;_ for those of the soul, _the Lord's Prayer_, and _hickory switches_! I was not long at Col.

Lloyd's before I was placed under the care of Doctor Issac Copper.

I was sent to him with twenty or thirty other children, to learn the "Lord's Prayer." I found the old gentleman seated on a huge three-legged oaken stool, armed with several large hickory switches; and, from his position, he could reach--lame as he was--any boy in the room.