Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-04-16

Tor cutting out of the diseased portion OF
The limb) should be performed In It's stead.'
A poor boy at the West was caught under
a falling log, and his leg broken, crushed,
and twisted upon Itself at right angles with
his thigh, the bones protruded through the
flesh, and no doctor near. He lived and
was, afler weeks Of suffering, taken TO 6
hospital. Modern conservative surgery
sawed of the protrudIng bones, tuned the
lleg back to It's place, and put on an instxu
ment TO keep ii Of equal length with The
other, and now that boy stands, runs and
jumps with two sound legs instead of am
putating the limb, as the old-fashiOned sur
gerry would have done.
WHArA LITTLE Boy THoUeHT. II an
a little boy about so many years old
l don't know whether l am 0 good lit
tie boy, but I'm afraid not, for some.
times do wicked things. and once Icui
sisters kittens tail off with the chop.
ping knife, and told her a big dog
came along and bit it off and swallow
ed it down before kitty could say Jack
Robinson, and sister said she was sorry
and it must have been very naughty
dog; but mother did not believe me,
aud said she was afraid / told lie,
and I'm afraii / had. So then she
asked me if / knew where liars went
to, aud Isaid yes-that they went to
New York aud wrote for the newspa.
pers; she said no-but lake of fire
and birthstone, and she asked me if !
would like to go there, and I,said no,
for l didn't think there would be much
skating or sliding on that lake, and the
boys cOuldn'tsnowball either on shore,
and she said it was worse than thNt,
Just as though that wasn't bad enough,
for / don't think they could play base
ball neither. Then she asked me if
would like to be an angel and have a
harp, and / said no, I'd rather be o
stage driver and have a big drum, for
/ couldn't play t'other thing. No, /
shouldn't like to be an angel, for their
wings mnst be in the way when they
play tag and leap frog, and
beside it must be hard to fly
when one amt accustomed to it. But
it would be jolly to be stage driver
aud have q great long whip and
touch up the leaders, and say "g'lang
there, what are ye doin' onl" I should
like that bettef'n' than hyin'; and then
mother said there was a dreadful stage
of sin, and Bob hollered and said that
he guessed l was on it, and then she
whipped us and.sent us to bed without
any supper; but didn't care for any
supper, for they hadn't nothin' for sup
per but bread and butter and tea, and
Bob and me got up and he lifted me
into the pantry window, and we got
mince pie and q whole hat full OF
doughnuts, and they thought it was the
cock that stole 'em, and sent her away
the next day, and Bob said he was glad
of it, for she didn't make good pies,
and the doughnuts wasn't fried enough
and sometimes do swear, for ] said by
golly the other day, and sister heard
me, and she told mother, and mother
said i was bad boy and would bring |
her gray hairs down to the grave, and |
she whipped me, but don't think it
did her gray hairs any good, and it hurt |
me, and when / got up stairs 1 said |
goff darn it, but said it so she didn't |
hear me, and when she asked me ii / |
didn't think l was very wicked, / said |
| was afraid l was, and was sorry Tor If,
and wouldn't do 80 any more, and then
she said l was good little boy, and
told me about George Washing.
sou, who cut down the apple.
Tree, and was caught at it, and said he
lid it with his little hatchet, just as if
hadn't heard all about it before; and
iidn't always think he was big stupid |
or cutting wood when they had a hired /
nan about the house, and dullin' his
little hatcheb, and besides it would have
,een great deal jollier to let the trees
,e, SO as he could have stole apples off
q the fall. l don't care if he was the
ather of his country, he wasn't smart,
Iud bet the boys In our school would
,heat him out OF his eye-teeth swoppin'
ack knives, and I could whip him and
lardly try, and I don't think he was
Tery healthy either, for 1 never see q
yoOd boy that wasn't always sick and
lad the mumps and measles, and the
carlet fever, and wasn't coughing ali
he while, and hadn't to take castor-oil
md tar-water, and couldn't eat cher
les, and didn't have to have his head
)atted till the hair was all rubbed off
~ everybody that came to his mothers,
md be asked how old he was, and who
lied to save sinners, and what he'd been
tudyiDg at school, and how far he'd
yot, and lots OF other conundrums, and
lave to say his catechism; no, I
houldn't hketo be good little boy, I'd
ust as lief be an angel and done with it
don't think / ever shall be good boy,
md other people don't think 30, for 1
wasn't never called good little boy but
,nce, and that was when my uncle
lsked me where / stood in my class,
and told him it was next to the.head,
md he said / was right and he gave
ne quarter, and when he asked me
low many boys we're in the class, and /
'aid there was only two, myself and a
1buo Blrls duu bueu no WHubou mo 10
give back the quarter and / wouldn't,
ind he ran after me and stumbled
over chair, and he broke his cane,
md hurt himself, and he's been lame
aver since, and I'm glad of it; for he
sn't my father, and hasn't any right to
ick me, for get enough OF that home;
md the quarter wasn't good either.
[ don't like Uncle John, and guess he
knows it, for he says / amt like any of
The family, and he says he expects I'll
go to the sea and be pirate Instead OF
B respectable member of society, and
| should not wonder, for would
rather be q pirate than soap.boiler
like him, and don't care if he is rich
it's nasty business; and / shan't have
to be pirate either, for one can make
lots OF money without that; and they
are always talking to me about being
rich and respectable, and going 10
Congress, and being President, and all
that sort O. thing; but don't want to
be President; there is Lincoln, he was
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