The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-04-21

that he had very powerful, If not very
! creditable, reasons for relinquIshing q
] practice somewhere in Essex. We never
Z knew if that was true-it was mere y
gossip. and Crawford IS great place
for that-but DIR Gryant paid down
half years rent in advance, took the
place from Michaelmas, and wanted
nothing done. Isaac Morley took his
! money and asked no questions.
! A great man for doctors was nv father.
} He was scarcely ever really i'll, but as he
grew old and began to feel the natural
infrmities of age creeping on, he was
never content unless he could be squirt
ling all manner of things into his car
and his eyes to make him feel better and
improve his sight He had his dinner
pills regularly, whether he had any din
ner or not He denied himself wine and
spirits, but drank steel, quinine, and
bark, and al manner OF tonic medicines
to excess He was a certain income to
any doctor who would put up with his
whims and fall into his ways, but as fond
of changing his physician as the habitual
topper is of changing his publican What
is more, though "near in most things,
he never objected to doctors bill.
/ AS soon as Doctor Gryant was installed
next door, my father paid off his last
medical man, DR.. Ross, who lived at
Spedminton Ga neighboring village) and
gave himself up to the advice Of his new
tenant. 1t was always great day, and
one to be remembered by my father,
when he commenced with new doctor.
There were all his ailments to be gone
over-his eye-symptoms, his ear symptoms
his indigestion, his nervous debility, his
liver, &c.,-so that, as he said, his con-
Istitution might be properly understood y,
by his adviser.
i Doctor Gryant licked off every item in
the long catalogue very solemniy with a
'Inod of bis fat white chin in his shirt col
liar, and though he knew these TO be pure
lily imaginary complaints he said, CAN"
and I" dear mel" and Very true!" and
J promised to send corrective medicines
for each. One symtom, however, was
} that of real disorder, and demanded
more careful attention My father com
plained, in addition, of certain nervous
twitchings in his limbs Doctor Ross,
who had become accustomed to the fan
! cies of his patient, had taken little notice
} of this, but Doctor Grylnt laid more
: Estress on the symptom, and mentally de-
, termined to exhibit minute doses of
: Estrychnine.
81 get very nervous about these twitch-
; ings," said my father, "and my health
being altogether in a precarious state,
am glad to have doctor living handy.
If should happen to want You, either
by day or night, have only to pull your
bell Don't be surprised if should not
wait Tor you to answer the door; the
, weather is 50 chilly, and am SO suscept-
ible Of cold that can't stand droughts.
shall ring your bell if want you, and
come indoors again, where you will find
!, me- You can never mistake my ring
: know the bell better than you do.
;, |Oblfge me by going to your surgery now,
} and listening
Dr. Gryant did so, and in few minutes
he heard this identical bell ring, not as
it usually 'oes, in peal, but in slow,
, measured beats /" One, two, three, four,
and SO on. 1t rang in this manner for
nearly minute, then stopped.
, The unusual sound of the bell struck
painfully on DR.. Gryant's ear. For an
) instant he was conscious of a creeping
sensation, warning of evil, as though
5 some one were walking over his grave
| but, shaking it of, he laughed at himself,
/, and saying "It's only whimsical old
fool ringing the bell his own way" went
to the door Old Isaac Morley had not
aited in the cold, but had lett the front
Z door of his house open for the doctor to
! enter, who found his patient quietly
! seated at the dining room fire awaiting
his return.
, "You see" said my father, "my
: dining room being on the ground floor
/ may just as well wait here for you by
) the fire as on your doorstep"
"Quite so" assented the doctor.
"And you are not likely to mistake my
! ring for a stranger's?"
!. Certainly not. But that is very
r queer bell, Mr. Morley Do you know il
!; has not pleasant sound when rung as
r you rang it?"
7 1t has distinctive sound, Dr. Gryant
!, that is all want. Whenever you hear
E the bell rung in that way, remember il
is land want you. Whether night OF
day, will you kindly remember this
r And if should not be at the door yor
! will find me in the dining
The doctor said he would and on re
:, turning to his house made several expert
y ments with the bell handle to repeat tn,
effect produced by my father, but will
$ very poor success.
| "Well," he thought to himself, ther,
is no doubt shall know the old fellow
y ring"
= My father was, certainly, a great plagu,
! for any doctor to live next door to. Doc
e tors were his weakness; and to get doc
y tor living SO near-a tenant too, will
y orty pounds year rent TO credit agains
a score for physic-was a sore temptation
d Nearly always once day Doctor Cry