Saturday morning visitor., 1848-09-09
A DOSE.
OR, WHAT DID SHE TAKEp

'"Ellen, you have been out"
"Well, know / have"
ITO The Kings hesdP"
'iNo, John. But no matter. You'll be
troubled no more with my drinking"
"What DO you meanY"
81 mean what | say, John," replied the
wife, looking very serious, and speaking
very solemhly and deliberately, and with
a strong emphasis on every word. "You
WILDE troubled-no- -more-with
my drinking. have took it at last
81 knew ~ exclaimed the wretched
husband, desperately tossing his arms a
loft, as when all is lost. Il knew it,"
and leaving one coat flap in the hand Of
his vile, Who vainly attempted TO detain
him, he rushed from the room--sprang
down three stairs at iime---ran along the
passage and, without hat or stick, dash
ed out at the Street door, sweeping from
the step two ragged little girls, a quaItern
loaf, basin of treacle, and baby. But
he never stopped TO see if the children
were hurt, or even 10 see if the children
dripped with gore or molasses. Away
he ran like a rabld dog, straightforward
down the street, needless alike of pVrter's
load, bakers basket, and butchers tray.
"Do thatagain y growled placard man,
as he recovered the pole and board which
had been knocked from his shoulder.
Mind where you're goin," bawled
hawker, as he picked up his scattered
wares, while "a dandy, suddenly thrust in
TO kennel, launched after the runner one
Of those verbal Inissi, es, which are SAID
To return,- like the boomerang, 10 those
who launched them.
Bat ON, OH scampered the teetotaller,
needless OF all pedinents--on on he scour-
ed, like he Camilla, TO the shop number
ed 240, with the red, blue and green bot
lies in the window the chemist and drug
gisl-into Which he darled, up TO the lit
lie bald man at the desk, with barely breath
To gasp out: l83
"Aiy wife - -poison!---pump!"
Vegetable or minera?" inquired the
surgeon apoihecary, with the utmost pro-
Iessional coolness. I
"BoIh--all sorts audanum-- arsenic
-oxalIc acid corrosive sublimate," and
The teelotaller was about TO add pine ap-
pie rum among the poisons, when tile doc
tor stopped him.
do you know the symptoms?"
Mop
Bu, remembering the symptoms over
night, the leetotalIer ventured to say, on
tie strength Of his Dream that she had
turned all sorls Of colors, like rainbow,
and swelling almost as big as house.
There is not moment 10 loose," said
E>culapius, and accordingly clapped on
his hat. and arming himself with the ne
cessRry apparatns-1a sort Of elephanic
syringe, with a very large trunk-he sci
of on irut, guided by the teetotaller, TO
unpoi>on The rash and ill-tated baccllanal-
ian, Mrs. Bnrrage. a i4lH
Now, when the teetotaller, with tie
medical man al his heels, arrived at his
own house, Mrs. Burrage was still in her
bedroom, which was great convenience,
for before she could account for the intru-
sion of stranger may, even without
| knowing how il was done, she found her
self seated in The easy chair; and when
she attempted 10 expostula'e, she found
herself choakiup with The tube Of some
,h,no which was certainly neither mac
car,'i nor sticl.Iimoriee nor We, pepner-
mint.
To account for this precipitancy, the ex-
apperated representation Of her husband
must be borne in mind; and if his wife
did not exhibit all the dolphin-like colors
that he had drscribed-il she was not quite
SO blue, green, yellow or black, as he had