Gutta Percha Willie

Mr Macmichael was a country doctor living in a small village in a thinly-peopled country; the first result of which was that he had very hard work for he had often to ride many miles to see a patient and that not unfrequently in the middle of the night; and the second that for this hard work he had very little pay for a thinly-peopled country is generally a poor country and those who live in it are poor also and cannot spend much even upon their health.