Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-04-24

order me up tumbler Of lamp oil Quick.
No sooner said than done. and Dick
the eabin-boy, handed the glass, filed to
the brim with the siekening oil, TO my
husband, who turned to leave the room.
'.See here. Martin called the captain
"you-you-for Gods sake!-yOu don't
mean to give that to him2,' pointing to
the oil.
"Don't L? Come and see. If he takes
it I've won the wager
"But you'll kill him !"
"Pooh! Not bit of lido him good.
He's awfully bilious anyhow"
He passed on to No. 1, aud we followed.
was terribly indignant, but | durs'nt
say word-I've changed somewhat since
then-and at sight Of the sick man |
could scarcely keep my own risiblea in
subsection. He was sitting straight up in
the middle of the berth. collarless, his
shirt.sleeves rolled up to the elbows, tho
corners of his mouth drawn down, his fin
gers en- his wrist, and his eyes struggling
with each other, if you can imagine what
that is, in Intellectual attempts to discover
what was going on overhead bet hearing
US. he called out
"0h, I'm done for know I'm done
for Doctor my pulse is all gone, and my
nails are BLUE! Oh, what would Polly
Ann say if she could see her Peter now 2
and he shook as if in an ague fit.
See here, Pete" said the doctor,
'you are feeling on the wrong side of the
wrist. No pulse there Of course. Here,
you just down with this oil, and then we
will have some hot blankets around you
in jify. Then get nap, anG tomorrow
you'll be all right"
"He ioaS brave fellow, after all, or
he never would have taken a dose like
that. say what yon will and the little
woman nodded dcfantly in the direction
of her husband, who simply said:
$50 on, Lucy"
You don't tell me he took tumbler.
ful of lamp.oil," said, starting to my
feet.
Yes do. He took every drop of it,
and the captain, you should have seer
HIM He just lay down on the cabin floor
and rolled over and over, like boy,
with his handkerchief stuffed into his
mouth and he rolled and kicked till hi.
shoes came off, and his elegant coat was
in broad, sympathetic smile from shoul'
der to waist. ...
IL don't know but laughed too, | am
afraid | did, but the doctor was as sober
as judge, till he got the patient safely
into bed, and we were all back in the
captains state-room.
cannot picture the scene that fol
lowed.
1t might have been an hour afterward
and it might have been several for We
took no note of time, when we were STAR
tied by terrible shrek from No. 4. Mr.
Martin rushed thither pell-mell the cap
tain close at his heels, abd at respect
full distance, could hear poor Peter crying
"Oh. doctor, its the cholera its tht
cholera!"
"No it aint its the oil, said the doc
tor.
.'Oh, its the cholera My God I've
the cramps! Oh, Polly Ann, Polly Ann
if you could see your Peter--oh, oh, I'm
going! Lord oh oh oh!' and tn,
poor fellows groans of distress, and cries
for Polly, and for mercy, were indeed
pitiful.
| cried too, little. a
There was pretty weak man on the
Agnes next day whose name was Peter
and whose sweetheart was Polly Ann, bu
he came out to dinner and was so gratefu
to Doctor Martin for saving his life, anC
curing him of the worst attack ofcholera
he ever heard Of a. s
He offered his purse to his prosecutor
who very magnanimously (O declined ta
king his money, saying he was paid BY
the captain. And so he was. .
APPROPRIATE NAMEs.-For printers
wife, En-; for sports wife, Betty
for lawyers wife, Sue; for fisher
mans wife, Nettie; for shoemaker
wife, Peggy; for a carpet-man's wife
Matte; for a teamster's wife, Carrie
for an auctionecr's wife, Bid-dy; for 3
chemists wife, Ann Eliza; for an engi
neer's wife, Dridge-it.
4. m "A wife who had been ecturing hel
husband fer coming home intoxicated be
came incensed at his Indifference, and ex
claimed, .sOh, that / could wiring tear
of anguish from your eyes!" To which
the hardened wretch replied, s'Tai-'tain'