Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-24
BRATTLEBORO VT, FRIDAY,

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when l get back. Have supper for me
when I come"
George Morris was placed on the sled.
An hour afterwards Harry Lane knocked
at the back door of the DOCTORS office. The
worthy doctor Metcalf presented himself.
"Where shall I take the bodyY he asked
in n low tone.
Right through into the dissecting room,
and lay II on the table. There, thought
you'd think better of it, and you've been
quick, too. Stopped at the graveyard as
you went along, didn't your"
"And the note?"
Here it is; you're welcome TO IL Mr..
Lane. You're a good hand at such little
matters, and shall have to call upon you
again."
"If you like the subject, l may be able
to furnish you more of the same kind" re-
piled the young man tearing the note into
s.s'rias, and closing tho door with "good
evening, doctor"
Doctor Metcalf chuckled to himself, well
pleased with his success. For half hour
perhaps he sat in his easy Office chair, Whit
fling fragrant Havana. At the end of that
time he took up the candle and went into
the dissecting room to see what kind of
subject had been brought for his class to
work upon the next day.
He held the candle in his left hand and
turned back the sheet with his right. The
fumes of liquor met his nostrils. He start
ed back with ludicrous combination of
anger, surprise and amazement upon his
countenance.
George Morris, by all that's evilr' he
ejaculated-"Drunkr p
Doctor Frank Metcslf saw that he had
been sold, and to the tune of hundred
dollars too. His first determination was to
give Harry Lane large piece of his mind;
his second was to have the worth of his
money, at any rate. Students are general
ly in for sport, and those belonging to the
institution superintended by dotcor Met
calf were no exception to the general rule.
Several choice spirits among them were
sought out by the victimized doctor, and
instructed in the subject under considera-
ton, and the part they were required to
perform. Every thing was in readiness
about the time George Morris awoke from
his drunken stupor.
He looked around-ghastly skeletons,
horrid grnning skulls, feshless bones met
his gaze on every side-he tried to move;
he could no more have raised an arm or
foot than he could have flown. A dim
light revealed all this to his astonished gaze
"A moment more and he was in impene-
trable darkness.
Suddenly right before him in flaming
characters, he saw the word perdition! He
trembled, he groaned, he shrieked in ter
ror. Was he in the abode of the lost?
Again dim light revealed by his side
.horrid figure, that might well have repre-
sented the prince of darkness.
"Mortal one," spoke ghostly voice,
''you have come to this dreadful abode for
the sin of drunkenness
.foroy, mercy r. shriokod the trembling
MN.
"Mercy? That never enters here. Be-
hold you have brought your own ruin up
on yourselfl"
Again all was darkness. Groans, horrid
yells and shrieks fell upon his ear, ice cold
fingers passed over his face, and dreadful
tions of his body. lie shrieked aloud-he
gave vent to his agony and terror in groans
and cries for mercy.
"You were n drunkard when living"
sal d an unearthly voice.
"Oh yes-ycs - groaned the unhappy
man.
"You had good wife and interesting
children"
"Oh yes, dear Satan, yes, the very best
of wives, the lovelest children"
"And you left them to suffer and starve,
o, you incorrigible man T. said the un-
earthly voice.
"Alas, yes!'
"And therefore receive your reward r.
Again the pinchings and the burnings
were continued and an almost intolerable
odor of sulphur beseiged his nostrils.
Again he shrieked and pleaded for mercy.
"Oh, mercy, mercy"
''You had no mercy upon the wife who
loved you, the children who cried for
bread" said the unearthly voice, "yet up
on one condition, you may return TO
them"
"And that, what is that? any condition.
"And remember shall watch you, and
if you ever cause that noble wife of yours
q tear"
"Oh, never will!
"Then remember" said the ghostly voice
again, "rememberr -
Chloroform rendered the miserable man
insensible. In that condition he was con-
veyed to q barn near by and placed in the
manger, there to recover himself as best
he might.
George Morris never drank another drop
of sprituous liquor. He became an indus
trious man, tender and provident father.
One day he told his wife in confidence that
the reason he had reformed was because he
appreciated her generous devotion, but we
knew better.
For a while Harry Lane was a little shy
of the doctor, but when he did meet him
the worthy physician shook him warmly
by the hand, saying that although he did
not particularly wish for any more sub
jects, he thanked him very much for the
one he had brought him, as by that means
a most inveterate drunkard had boen re-
formed, and broken hearted wife rescued
from the very brink Of the grave.
Harry Lane asked no questions, but
when the name of George Morris was pro-
posed few years afterwards for the nom
inaton of county judge, he gave pecul-
lar whistle, and said in low tono,
"Well, it all comes of being the DOCTORS
subjectv
Mr.. Peter Cooper of New York, is one