Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-28


Ynuss have a holiday. 90 down 20 my
plsre. stag week or = month, &c tell the
butler and housekecpes 10 make you COM
fsrsabIe"
Nv fasher, II he pleased, might hsve
been one OF TIE ma istrates ri WARRIOR
ourh street Police Court Lord Groogco
sseni for him enc morning, ara whcn Re
cxrne into the room, sale
Row. you've been smoking.
I II sssire yeur iorashir, have not
.Tho7a vou've been In room where
oshcY nedr,e were smoking, Go homo
and cha,sga vour coat, and como back "a
frc dIrecssys
nv faffrr went homo and Put on an
other cass. and when nc came bsck his
/ ioraalip ssid
aRnw. won are ~ re the new magistrate
OF MarItg~ench street. Police CoUrt. /
hrve srnken e. Ssamoufh, and be hiss
promised TO accept my nomination.
sgnf. rny lord, I doa't think | am til
for the position !"
81 saw vf,u Gre. We wsnt such men ~
Won are On The bench. TIE worth your
accordance. Six hundred year, and q
house 70 i've In
~ have beard. my lord, tha. Lord
Henry Petty has applied on behslf OF MI
ConsnI, the bookseller"
at know 1t. Petiy's a twopenny Wing,
and has no chsrce, I've arranged the
matter with Sidnnouth 90 think II over,
and let me have voMr answer IN week
aMv father went home and talked over
/ the offer with nv mother; but he loved
/ his old bnnkshoy and as he had his hands
! fun OF publishinp business he decided on
not accepting IL; he wrote letter OF
thanks, declining 70 take the place
He always used 20 say that two rainy
/ davs were the luckiest days OF his lie.
The first brought him prosperity IN busi-
| ness the second perhaps saved his lille,
certainly saved his leg.
| There was parish feast at the Mari.
| borough Head tavern, at which one OF
/ the -es.ry had TO put dozen OF wine on
the table. My father was there, and had
taken more than he could comfortably
carry; 80 when he got home and looked
for tie keyhole, lstch key in hand, he
could not find 1t. Not wishing to disturb
my mother, he thought he could get In at
the first door window SO he climbed up
| the spout outside the house until he got
/ to the lead coping, but, there missing his
footing, he fell heavily into the street.
The watchman picked him up, and at first
thought he was killed; he got the street
| door open and took him into his bed
room. In q short time ne came TO hls
senses, but could not move one OF his legs.
Mr.. Swift, celebrated surgeon, was sent
| for /; he came, and, on examining the dam
| aged leg, said II was broken. be could
/ do nothing To 1t then, but Ut tour O'CLOCK
/ in the afternoon he would bring his in
struments and cut it off My mother was
| in dreadful way At hearing this, and 30
was my father. In the morning when
the shop WAS opened and the apprentices
were told OF what had happened, there
WAS good deal OF crying, for they ali
loved the old gentleman. just about MID
day il began 10 rain. A gentleman wear
ing cloak came ID, and said ne was on
his way to the levee, and ss he could not
afford TO spoil his court.dress might he
stop few minutes until the rain was
OVER But" says he, what are ye all
crying fort"
One of the shopmen tells him that my
father broke his leg that morning, and
that at four O'Clock Mr.. Swift was coming
10 cut IL of.
That's shsrp work p said the gentle.
man. II have ten minutes TO srare. ]
am q surgeon. Go up stairs, and say |
would like TO look at the limb"
NV father made no objection, and the
gentleman went up.siairg, and, after cx-
amining the leg, said: This leg is not
broken. Run and get in half-a dozen
men, and bring me couple OF thin
boards"
They called In some Of the neighbOrs,
and after the gentleman had cut the board
INTO lengths he got the joint right again,
which had been twisted out OF its place
and having bound II up In splints. went
TO the leyee, promising 70 call On bis re-
turn.
Mr.. Swift looked 10, about an hour be-
| fore four o'clock, and tod us TO get up the
| kitchen table and make things ready
while he went for his amputatipg instru
ments.
One Of the apprentices told him that q
gentleman had been there, and what thu
gentleman had said and done.
4 "Tell him from me he's guack," sait
Mr.. Swift. II say the leg must come
OIL"
Mr.. Swift went away, and almost i'm
mediately ailerward the gentleman came
well, how gets on my patients' sale
he
80! Mr.. Swift has been here and say
you are quack."
"A Quack, lie its Surgeon OBrien o.
the Six Hundred and Forty. fourth I
quackl I'll wait for the gentleman, ant
ask him TO explain his small mistake"
Mr.. O'Brien went into the bedroom
ana waited for Mr.. Swift, who came q
the appointed time.
"If you don't have the leg of directly,
said Mr.. Swift to my father, "you hat
better make your will"
you think SO, do your says the 9th
er, coming forward; "hadn't you better
be thinking about making your own will
6rstY You called me quack Surgeon
O'Brien Of his Majesty's Six Hundred and
Forty fourth, who WAS in Bunker's Hill
and half.a-dozen other battles In America
But you are an old man, and that saves
your bones. Get out Of the house by the
door, II you don't want to be thrown out
by the window. And, mark my words
I'll have this gentleman down in his shop
in . fortnight, = better man than ever he
was In his lifei'
| Mr.. O'Brien kept his word; he cured
my father, and for thirty years they were
the frmest friends.
KvvprV1 ,Nocv The intou oolu no,