The village doctor came to doctor Jack Melland's damaged ankle, and the
patient fumed and fretted beneath his old-fashioned treatment.
"Bandaging me and laying me up by the heels for weeks at a time; it's
folly!" he declared angrily. "The man is twenty years behind the times.
If I were in town I should have had one of those Swedish fellows to
massage it, and be about in half the time. Just my luck to go in for an
accident in a place where one can't get proper attention!"
"But you groan if anyone comes near your foot; wouldn't it hurt
dreadfully much to have it massaged?" Mollie asked.