Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-06-28
NAT MORGAN.

We know of no one, except it be Mat
! Morgan, from whom fear banished it,
Mat was gardener, groom, and man Of
all work, to merchant up town, and an
honest fellow he was-and is, for tina,
matter-and most assiduous in the dis
charge of his multifarious avocations.-
At early morning he might be heard, as
he cultivated his vegetables, singing a
"high faluting" song of some twenty one
verses: And then at evening, when he
brushed the ''boss's" horse, he might be
heard whistling in tones Of thrilling pa
thos, the "Coleen das scruithen amo," or
the "Black Bird" Mat was taken sud-
denly i'll on the twenty first of last month
with cramps inhis stomach, and he thought
that his whistling and singing were all
over with him.
ooh! ah! ee!'' said he, running into
the house of his employer, who happened
at the time to be. at his Office. Oh! alb
ee!' he repeated, clasping his hands over
his abdomen.
"Why, what's the matter Matthew ?''
said the wife Of his employer.
"Oh, murther, madam! I'm kilt entire
ly. Ifeel me bowl les tumblin' in me belly,
like eels in barrel. I've got the cholera
morbus. Oh! all! There it is again 20
"Well then, Matthew said his mis-
tress, "Samson has the buggy at the door,
get into it, and he will drive you right of
TO the Charity Hospital, for am told that
the cholera patients have the very best
nursing and medical attendance there"
Mat did as she bid him, and he was soon
in the Charity Hospital. As soon as he
went in, some medicine was administered
to him, which alleviated in some measure
his pain. He then looked about him, and
sooth to say, he did not like the appear
ance of things in his ward over well.-
Some poor fellows were writhing in pain !;
others, FRUSTRATED by the disease, were as
still as if death had already set his seal on
their lips; and others were breathing as
men do when life is about TO depart from
them. Now some poor fellow was car
ried in, cold and livid--a strongly marked
case of the disease now the porter's bell
tolled ftfully, and two men entered, and
lay, carried it between them down stairs.
1t was too much for poor Mat; up he
bounced from his bed, and thrust himse ELF
Into his clothes, and in twenty minutes
was back TO the house of his employer,
whom he found within, before him.
"Why, Mat" said his employer, Il
thought you We're at the hospital"
$50 was" said Mat. ..s s...-
"And W ny did you not remain there ?''
said his employer. "Surely you are MOI,
well yet ?''
"Never was better in my life, SIR said
Mat. 'BcSor, half an hour in that estab-
lishment ought TO kill or cure any one I"
elbow so ?" asked his employer.
80, there's such mortal sights there"
said Mat. II was not well laid in my bed.
when | heerd the bell il was not a natural
ring ather-but a kind Of growl, like
the bark Of a sperit that would assume
the shape of a dog in graveyard.
"What's that Fire, is it ? says l to an
old fellow that was tyin' bit of paper
with my name on it 10 the bed-post.
mo its the dead beIl," seq he. "No.
81 is to be taken to the dead house."
"What for ?" seq I. ...e.-.
"'ro be di>sected," seq he. ri
"What! like pork pig ?" sell. obi
vided at the joints %
"Just So" seq he.
"And what's that for ?" seq I.
"For the benefit of science" seq he.
Sand sure enough, couple of fellows
came in, and very unconsarnelly they
rolled 81 into their hand barrow and car
ried him off
"There il is agin!' seq I.
"What ?" seq he.
"'rhat friyhtiul ould bell" seq I.
"Yis," seq he, ats 7S's turn
"And does he go to the dcad-house,
too ?" seq /.
''Of course he does" seq be: "where
else would you have him go?"
"And doyouhave no wakes here?' seq I.
"No, nor funerals either" seq he.
"Nor no cryin' over the corpse ?" seq |.
"No, that's vulgar" seq he-"no peo-
pie do that but The lri>h.'
90, muriher!' seq /: "and you call
this Christian country but We won't
catch me dyin' nor livin' here long either,
Guild boy" seq |. "When | die, | want
to drop of somehow that they'll bury me
dacent;" and with that l jumped up, had
my clothes on in jiffy, and here l am, as
well cured of the cholera as If had swal-
lowed an apothecary's shop.
"And what cured you so efIectually,
Mat ?" said his employer.
"Well TO tell You the TRUTH said Mat,
devil thing did it but the .tfigM.-.N. 0.
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