The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-06-15

biing OF shelter from the mos.
quitoes with which the place abounded
Biogg wouldn't sit up, and had gone
70 ms room at once. I was in the
middle ofmy second cherOot when an I'M
earthly yell from the direction Of BIoop,z
rooIa startled me, and in few seconds he
was standing before me, while he leaned
one hand on the back of my chair and
whispered in hOarse voice, THE snakel
I'm bittenl Quick; bring the doctor at
once" As he sunk into chair I hast.
ened of, and having Weakened Fafrbairn
and Thompson we were soon again at his
side, our hands full Of restoratives, our
tongues full Of inquiry. "Oh, there's
no mistake about it, said poor Blogg.
heard the thing give hiss, and then
felt the bite. l was half asleep, and had
thrown my leg over the side Of the bed
Look here; here's the mark" And he
pointed to livid spot on the calf of his
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 l had heard
muttering as we came across from the
house: "Poor old Blogg. But snake
bites amt met with every day; very in
teresting; I'll take notes."
Meantime a jorum of about half a
tumbler of whisky had been admins
tered to the patient, and Thompson had
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 for
like this, I say, Thompson? Can't you
do anything to help the fellow"
"Temper irritable" noted down
Thompson in a few hieroglyphics in shis
book.
Cant do much for you, I'm afraid,
pOer old chap" he continued eve are
going to inject ammonia beneath the
skin presently. You don't feel your
tongue swelling at all, do you, OF a
creepy sensation down your back, or
anything2"
"Oh, dear!-Oh, dear! I" groaned the
sufferer, needless of these professional
inquiries and thinking of approaching
dissolution.
Presently he gave roar as Thompson
gave him sharp prod with a needle.
CAN right, all right" said the latter
cheerfully; no loss of sensibihty-yet."
DR.. Fairbairn was hard at work press
ing and cleansing the wound, uttering at
intervals various consOlatOry expressions
and 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. az
say, his teeth look fixed, don't they p
tetanic spasms commencing" and he
rashly applied his forefnger to the bar
Reading teeth, which the captain very
naturally kept closed to avoid an attack
with forceps upon the tongue; but the
"tetauic spasm" was insufficient to pre-
vent the ardent young surgeon from re-
ceiving a smart bite from the patient,
who feared that there was a sign upon
his tongue.
Captain Blogg had now become al
ternately querulOus and maundering.
"Thompson, you're a foolish cOld-blOOded
pill-bOx. No; I shan't be quiet, and
you amt going to squirt that stuff into
me, I can tell you. Dash hypOdermie
inieCshuns! Yes; can wink with one
eye and be hanged to you, and l don't
feel a numbnesA in my lower extremi-
ties. shay, Fairbairn, amt he bruteS
Fancy dying in this way, eh?. shpOse
shmith II get the step. Don't like
shmith. Make my VIII, ehS That's a
good uni Got nothing to leave but
few debts and case of three-star Hem
Messy. Thompson can have the debts,
and YOU may have the brandy, old chap.