The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-03

pointed to livid spot on the calf OF hi
leg. The two doctors examined it care
fully.
"D'ye see any puncture, Thompson?'
said Fairbairn.
"No; but that's of no Importance
replied Thompson, whom I had heart
muttering as we came across from thu
house: "Poor old Blogg. But snak'
bites amt met with every day; very in
tercsting; I'll take notes."
Meantime a jorum of about half ,
tumbler of whisky had been admins
tered to the patient, and Thompson hae
made note of his temperature, the STATE
of his pulse, and had ficked the candle
about in front of his eyes, to ascertain
the state of the pupil-a manner more
suggestive of an interesting case
than of sympathy for the victim, and
which the victim resented.
"What are you fooling me about fol
like this, I say, Thompson Can't you
do anything to help the fellow"
"Temper irritable" noted down
Thompson in a few hieroglyphics in his
book. .e=..
Cant do much for you, I'm afraid
poor old chap" he continued 1--WE are
going to inject ammonia beneath the
skin presently. You don't feel you,
tongue swelling at all, do you, or a
creepy sensation down your back, OF
anything?"
ooh, dear oh, dear /" groaned the
sufferer, needless of these professional
inquiries and thinking of approaching
dissolution.
Presently he gave roar as Thompson
gave him sharp prod with needle.
"All right, all right" said the latter
cheerfully; no loss of sensibility-yet."
DR.. Fairbairn was hard at work press
ing and cleansing the wound, uttering at
intervals various conselatory expressions
aud had administered another dose OF
the whisky, which by now was having
visible effect on the captain. His utter
ance became thick.
{ =" Do you remark" said the junior to
Dr.. Fairbairn, "thickening of speech
sensorymotor nerves affected? ?" and
down went his pencil and paper. 81
say, his teeth look fixed, don't they p
tetanic spasms commencing" and he
rashly applied his fore6nger to the bar
reading teeth, which the captain very
naturally kept closed to avoid an attack
with forceps upon the tongue; but the
"tetanic spasm" was insufficient to pre-
vent the ardent young surgeon from re-
ceiving smart bite from the patient,
who feared that there was a sign upon
his tongue.
Captain Blogg had now become al
querulous and Numbering.
" Thompson, you're foolish coid-bleoded
pill-box. No; I shan't be quiet, and
you amt going to squirt that stuff into
me, 1 can tell you. Dash hypodermic
injecshunsl Yes; 1 can wink with one
eye and be hanged to you, and I don't
feel a numbness in my lower extremi-
ties. shay, Fairbairn, amt he brute?
Fancy dying in this way, Ell 2. Shpose
Shmith III get the step. Don't like
Make my Will, Ell? That's a
good un! Got nothing to leave but a
few debts and a case of three-star Hen
Thompson can have the debts,
and you may have the brandy, old chap.
Can 1 walk? Yes, I can walk" and
rising to his feet, he reeled from one side
of the veranda to the other, and finally
brought up short against one of the sup
ports, which he embraced tightly.
"No coordination of movement-mis-
chief to the cerebellum," said DIR.
Thompson, as he and DR.. Fairbairn went
to the patients assistance. By this time
the whole house was up; servants were
about more noisy than useful.
Mrs. Fairbairn had risen and made
anxious inquiries as to the accident,
when we were all surprised at a merry
peal of laughter, which proceeded, with
out doubt, from that excellent lady.
"Mest unseenly!" said DIR. Fairbairn.
Horrid, cruel, northumberland her.
shexl" meaned the captain.
"Odd!" said DR.. Thompson.
William, William, come here i"
cried the lady, as soon as laughter per-
mitted her to speak and DIR. Fairbairn,
with an angry look, asked me to take
his place, went out. He returned, how
ever, with his own face distorted with
laughter, and going straight to the room
that Blogg had occupied shouted out
"All right, here's your snake, Blogg
I've got himl" and giving hurrah and
a bang with stick goose waddled from
under the bed and tapped her wings
about the room, kissing angrily at the
Capt. Blogg's bed had been made upby
an intelligent servant over tub in which
a sitting goose had been placed. The
captains overhanging leg had offered an
irresistible mark.
He didn't appear at breakfast next
day, but went off early. Pressing duty,
we afterwards learned.
DIR. Fairbanks cobra was never heard
of again, but doubtless had a merry
time of it among the jungle-pigs and rats.
ANNIE DICKINSON does not seem des-
tined to make success as an actress, if
one can judge from the criticism called
out by her first appearance in "Anne
Boleyn." One account says: AT
points where she could lecture she was
effective. She showed dramatic instinct