The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-10-09

scratching and kicking that shall go
crazy, or die outright, if you don get
them out, and that very soon. Don't
you hear them, doctor just put your
hand here, and feel how they shake my
skull"
The doctor placed his hand upon the
forehead OF the invalid as he was hidden.
1t was burning hot, and the temples
throbbcd with the bounding currents Of
blood Shot through the veins by the
violence oftho meGtal agitation. Cerebral
eXtrayasation and fatal asphyxia were
Imminent. Immediate and copious de-
plction, b. topical venesccticn, relieved
the apoplectlc symptoms, but left the
disorder of the mind raging as ferccly as
ever. Something must be done to remove
that, or the bodily arrangement would
again recur, and death might follow up
the now more than probable rupture of
a cerebral blood-vesscl. The doctor had
devised his plan, and the moment for its
execution had arrived.
Hastily delivering some orders to the
attendant servants, he turned to his
patient, and said
"Colonel, | begin to believe that
may possibly be mistaken about those
little 'niggsrs which you say arc inside
Of your head. | will give you dose of
medicine | have prepared, which is of
such peculiar virtue, that, the moment
you swallow it, the little rascals will cry
out Justify, if there be any in your head,
as You say there are"
The eyes Of the invalid sparklod with
u CLEAN of delight at the qualified assent
OF the doctor to the reality of his cerebral
lnprcgnation, and more at the possibility
Of speedily deliyerancc from his tor
mentors.
"pm glad you have come round to
the truth, at last, DOCTOR" he exclaimed,
IN cxhilarated tones. " Give he the
medicine you speak of: III take it. DO
you, then, listen, and Ill be bound YOU
will hear the little devils blating out as
soon as | swallow it,
The medicine, cold water with pun
gent but harmless solution injected, was
administered, and the patient had hardly
resumed his recumbcnt posture, when Il
full chorus ofbaby voices, crying, Shrek
inc and sobbing, was heard in a room
closely adjoining the sick chamber, the
partition door of which being aar let in
the full symphony Of the nursery chimes.
The patient almost sprang out Of bed,
less with surprise than delight.
" There now, DOCTOR" he fairly shout
ed, "don't you hear the little niggcrs
yourself! Won't you believe me now
that my head is full of them, Do listen
how they sqnall, whole crowd of them.
On, mercy if they were only out of my
head. Can't you, doctor can't you
pull them out, physic them out, OF scare
them out !-any way at all, doctor, 50
you get them out Of my head"
10 these thick-coming heterogeneous
the doctor made the curt reply, "NoIoncl,
| think | can relieve YOU The niggpys'
arc indeed III your head, and l shall soon
bavc them out.
Going to a table in the room, he I'M
folded a case Of surgical instruments,
selected the ones he needed, and turning
to his patient, said, alt will be necessary
for you to submit to a surgical operation
before | can relieve you. | must make
u hole in the back Of your head large
enough to pull those little sniggers cut
at, or they will have to stay there, and
you will have to die, certain, and soon
too. II you will consent to the operation,
can make the hole and draw out the
little ra8cals very few minutcs.'
The logic Of the doctor was quite con-
elusive with the patient. lie consented,
unhesitatingly, to the operation. Turn
ing him in the bed, so as to place him
with his face to the wall and his back to
the door Of the room from which the now
silent chorus Of baby voices had pro-
ceedcd, the doctor made several sharp,
quick punctures, with large needle, in
the back of his head, at the spot where
the phrenologists locate the organ of
philoprogcnitivencss. The patient, who
was man Of nerve and resolution, bore
the operation without hinching. After
several punctures had been inflicted, the
doctor passed a blunt, pointed instru-
ment, under heavy pressure upon the
skin, around in u circle over the pune
tured points. He then pulled, with
some violence, the turf Of hair inclined
within the circumference of this circular
spot.
Now, colonel" lie said, &c be per-
fcctly still and silent. The hole is made
and | can see the little niggers,' black
as ink and thick ne whortInhorr;as IN
june Here, some one of you negro
women out there in the yard, come and
hold these little darkies as | take them
out Of your masters head.
A negro woman, holding a bundle
closely folded i'll her arm, entered and
stood near the bedside in q position
pointed out to her by the doctor. Fun
bling a moment at the imaginary hole in
the patients head, and then making a
quick jerk backwards, the doctor ex-
claimcd,-
"I'vc got the little rascal, colonel
just turn over, and see for yourself"
The patient slowly turned over, as
though his head were heavy and sore. -
AS he turned, the doctor seized the
bundle in the arms of the negress, with
drew the covering, and held up bona
.fde, naked, and now squalling, black
baby before the wondering gaze of the
invalid. His eyes fairly danced with