The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-11-25
HOW ] MARRIED IN SPITE OF MY.
SELF.

I was young surgeon, just free from
college and walking the hospitals, when
got my first practice in the little coun-
try town of Dunfeld DR. Thompson, of
the place, was an old friend of my faith
er's, and it was arranged that should
assist him, with an ultimate view to the
whole practice. 1t was a good lookout
for a young man just beginning life.
Above all, as my friends vehemently
prophesied. Thompson can't possibly
live another ten years, you know. 80,
with many pleasant dreams about dead
men shoes and other cheerful subjects,
[ moved myself and my goods and chat
tells to W-shire.
Most naturally 1 had a good deal of
curiosity as to my new friends and
patients. Mine WAS a sociable tempera-
ment: and as [ had about two hundred
and fifty pounds a year Of my own, in
addition to what Dr. Thompson was to
give me, fancied that [ was already IN
position to have a little home and a
wife of my own, provided of course that
| could find some really nice girl VINO
suited nv taste and liked me. | had a
sort of grand feeling that the medical pro-
fession ought to be obliged to me for en-
tering it. -
s'It isn't as if [ were fellow who had
quite to earn his daily bread was re-
mark I made to my bosom friend, Char
lie Somers.
I arrived at Dun6eld in the early part
of May Itwas settled that, for the first,
I should live at DR.. Thompson s whom L
found to be CHEEKY old fellow, and his
wife most kind, motherly soul. They
had no children, and the household was
quiet and well ordered The practice,
too, was very good.
The town had it's squire. Sir William
| Crownurst His wife, Lady Crowhurst,
was the grandee of the place and, by
| good fortune, their two little girls were
my first patients, being conveniently selzed
with mild touch of measels soon alter
my arrival, and when the doctor happen.
| ed to be laid up with lumbargo. This OF
course gave me good start. and was the
best introduction | could wish for to the
other swells of the town, such as the
clergyman and his wife; Mr., and Mrs.
| Perkins, who had seven children, OF
whom one or the other was always alllng;
Mr.. Gordon, the lawyer, who had also
/ wife and two grown-up daughters; and
many others.
1t is true there was a rival doctor in the
| place-there always are rival medical mer
in small town-but then ,he hand
even stray dog toexperimentalize upon,
as old Thompson chuckGngly told me.
Mr.. Snares was his unlucky name. As
however. can only mention one or two O
these people again in my story, 1 will no
weary YOU with lot of }faHntts 2oe,soaT
who will never be accounted for; else the
postmaster. chemist, dissenting minister
| schoolmaster, and others, are all vel
worth being described, each In his or he
own peculiar way.
About three weeks after my arrival
Thompson showed me note from Mrs
Gordon, saying that her daughter had ;
bad cough-would one of us come up t.
see her?
''Now, Mr.. Gwynne." said the doctor
'shere' chance of distinguishing your
self. LAWYER Gordon is smart maj
, and making no end of money. Mrs. Cor
don is a great one for being on the sicl
list. Unfortunately, she doesn't like me
because she suspected me once of sendin
!. her bread pills and water mixture whe
her imaginary illness drove me heyon
bounds. so that lean and hungry Snare
was called in; but he injured his caus
bv persisting to remain for lunch, whic
. Mrs. Gordon thought very impertiner
ON first acquaintance and SO it wa:
Now my firm belief is that this cough
more than half to decide if you will Dc
$ Or if she must send to Colchester for ID
Sims. which will of course cost her
great deal more. They are good patient
too good to lose; SO go and do you
: best for us On no account be sparlng {
grave shakes of the head and plenty {
medicine, though it may be as lnnoceI
as you like, provided it be judiciousl
nasty.
. ''All right, sir" was my reply; s'T
go up at once - and as | spoke / ros
from my seat and proceeded up stairs t
put on clean collar and a better tit
trying to think wasn't q bit nervou:
: But was; for when [ was young ma
: I was very nervous, and never could, t
, save my life, give reeartee answer {
= get out of a mess neatly. | pushed N
hair up. then pattcd it down again;