Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-02

j1st at, the very moment, and for s'me ting nc
,fter." tK
low L,f il in my Inside, dye mean,
sir 2" 3askef HOPPER. - ~ ffA E
just So" Was the blanl reply IS
. "Wcll, SIR said Hopper, go far as !,
ca1 remcmbcr, L Memory Impaired
to Vgig Nile TOP, and was talzin', and
laughin', and chaff1n', and what not, about
the train that was a-comin' behind US,
and about the next big race; and was
oferin' Tom Briggs, as sit jest opposite me,
hundred TO seven, I think it was-but |
won't besure to point" Memory de-
cidedly impaired again muttered the doc
tor, 7" can't recollect the most important
matters" against the Flying ,Scud for
the Tun6ridgesh5re, when all OF suddint
there was trememjuous-what dye call
it 2" RS JOLT" suggested the doctor, and
added: &c Memory frightfully, impaired =
can't remember the cOmmoneste words
All, somethink o. that; and Tom he jerks
forrard, and gives me one for yself across
the nose with the brim of his hat; and be-
fore l could punch his head, there was an
other-jolt, don't you call it," Memory
in shocking state" muttered the doctor,
and another gen1'man say 80, Lord ? and
come head foremost, sixty miles an hour,
into my stomach and after that | don't
recollect any more till was pulled out O
the carriage (for dussn't move, for fear
any o my limbs was broke), and found
was none the ,wuss of the whole business
except jest this ha'p'orth O bark off my
nose" a..s'.. - s,.s ,tss.+.
"You thought you were none the worse,
said the doctor, seriously and emphatical-
ly; "but you have not told me how you
"Well, | hardly know myself, sir, -
["Knocked insensible," muttered the doc
tor conclusion Of the brain, chronic dis,
order of the eerebelluin inevitable !; you
see it was all over in about three minutes
I "It seemed to you about three minutes, ="
SAID the DOCTOR "because you were in a
state of insensibility; but can't you re,
member any particular feelingsp F
"Well, when the bump first came, | re-
collect couldn't have spoken a word any
more than if had been born deaf and
dumb !; my tongue didn't seem of any use
to me; my art seemed a-tryin' to get out
side O me and had a awful taste like
ashes or somethink in my mouth. "sdi .
81 know the symptoms" said the doc!
tor knowingly; i and now tell me do you
feel at all dizzy when you go to bed and
get up? Is your sight at all affected !?
And does your hand shake 2" ,.-ste
{. "All three, sir" answered Hopper,
dreadful" .~Fi'S|'f SO 2F4{i
This was not astonishing, seeing that
even before, the accident, Hopper's plan of
Recommending his liquors by showing that
he himself was far from afraid of them,
had produced all The symptoms the doctor
alluded to; and after the accident, the
kind assurances of the doctor and OF, friends,
that Hooper might depend upon it that he
was injured internally, had begotten a
nervousness that led to greater consistency
than ever in the plan of recommendation.
So. Hopper was ordered outOf town, was
wheeled about in Bath chair. and SO skill
fully treated that he was, after a very short
time, unrecognisable by his own friends ;
and many a witness could swear, without
any approach to perjury, that he had lost
three stone within short time after the
accident So the Great Southern Railway
Company was induced to compensate him
Cor, to use Hoppers own words, to
g square" him) with three hundred pounds;
which Hopper himself allows, is pretty
good compensation for " the bit o. bark he
lost" For he does not think the Company
responsible for the state to which his own
friends and his own doctor reduced him,
and from which he recovered with mar
ydllous rapidity the moment Chat was d.
rectly after Achan and the doctor were
paid) that he was left to himself. Surely
this case Of Hopper issGflicient to give the
moralizer something to think about, and
make the railway companies consiter if
they would not find prevention cheaper
TO shareholders than compensation. -
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