Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-11-17
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A JOKER IN LIMBO.
rom sayings anu domgs oithe university Of Oztord
must make room for rom
Sherrlngston's last. You remember Tom
Sherry, our senior by some four years, who
did more mischief in one day than all the
rest OF Us in a week-Shayed old Dir. Dol
bery's cat-gave the pigs castor oil, and
painted the old ores like a New Zealand
chief-ensconced fine hedgehog in Mo-
Their Perkins bee, fand then recommended
! his Pantohygeistic lotion OF oil, vinegar,
| pepper, and sugar, as cure for scartied
soles. Wen, this beau ideal of { mischief
came here, and having done only not
enough III one way 70 get expelled, and just
enough IN another way to get through
has determined on the medical line, and
entered himself as a sawbones at our mfr
mary.
About a week since he vas returning
with Mostyn Of Jesus from a dinner-partv
at Old tutors Of theirs, who has s4eIyed
himself with spouse in the vicinity, it
tie the better for some good port.
" Messy" said he, how should you
like to be doctored for nothing at the iulr-
mary %
" Not articularly," said his companion.
" Ay, there we differ; | should like ii
uncommon, and hang me if won't be
patient this very night" muttered Sherry.
. Bet you, you DON'T" said Mostyn.
/" Done" said Sherry, " for a Henry
iiase, and that you shall help to carry me
IN 10. another"
Very well, done" replied his friend.
On they stroled towards Oxford, talking
about the last bottle Of port and a partcu-
Iary good devil. Just before they arrived
al the lane that leads to Pot Meadow, Sher-
rlngton begins to staSger and look stupid,
and Just as The two fame rs are within s. hit,
and clear patch Of grass near at hand,
nops down on his an,icaput and performs
sundry eliptical twis!ings, Co ,ortiJus, and
groaniAgs, bites most luriously, and gets
up a respectable foam at the mouth.
Poor Messy was not the wisest Of the
wise, entirely forgetting the bet, sings out
for help, lays hold Of one leg, gives the
ether to one chawbacon, and the head and
shoulders to another, and marches him oil
at quick time TO the !nhrmary.
Ring, ring goes the baiI--iown comes
the nurse followed by the resident doctor,
and in marc1 the bearers in due process
sion. Once within the house, the contor-
tians rapidly Increase and get worse ard
worse until the patient is deposited on a
bed ia one Of the private rooms. As fate
would have. Just as Sherry was thinking
Of letting tie cat out OF the bag, in walked
Greenwood, the cIeverest, shrewdest, and
most stern doctor in the hospital
bad case-bad case, Mr.. Perkins"
every, doctor" "a violent kick - can
not quiet him." two kicks and bite
" Iumph place him in the strait bed"
The kicking ceased, and Sherrington
was quietly deposited in place where he
could move neither hand nor foot, and, ere
he could speak, found himself in fix.
Nurse" said DR.. Greenwood, -" fetch
Wilson,"
In came the barber, prepared his instru-
mcnls, and looked delighted attAe prospect
Of curtailng such q wig.
" Hang It, doctor muttered the patient,
or rather tried to mujter. as a tight strap
rather restrained his words, and added
certain indefiniteness 10 his inference, . its
all hoax"
Poor fellow, poor fellow; evidently
GeIirious. BE quick, Wilson raise his
head, Mr. Perkins,
And in about five minutes Tom was as
bald as the back of his hand, and swearing
like & drunken trooper
Now, nurse, that plaster" said tn
cool doctor: there. from the bottom 0.
the skull 70 the nape Of the neck
And on went the eyer-sticking blister,
whilst a compulsory medicin-spoon ssnt
good rafting dose down the Patient'st hroat,
and patient lie now was, as quiet -noI
as a lamb. but a tiger that has missel his
prey. and begins 10 think very small beer
of itself.
On the following morning Sher ington
was dismissed as cured-ccngratuated by
the whole medical staf;-obItgod to sham
thanks in return, and pocket his afTrcnt |
his ten pounds and his new wig. He has
forsworn Oxford practice, bolted to Lon
don, and entered at--. whittier hope
his unfortunate illness may not follow and |
incapacitate him from attending TO those
professional studies for which he has shown |
his attachment in volunteering to be bis |
tered and dosed for the good of all pracl-
cal jokers.-London Metropolitan for o.
to5er.
Infant Hohaess.-Ann, third daughter
Of Charles l., dedin her infancy, when not
r,ll co.tr wars old poing minded Ia,