Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-02
DOG ON" DOC FULLER.
Some Juicy Experiences of the
Ex.Coroner.
His Country Excursions m
Other Years.
From the Indianapolis People.

"Where were you practlclng med
icine then, Doc?"
This question was asked while Doc
and 1 were whirling along in one of
Tom SCOTS easy, coy, luxurious
palace cars on the evening train from
louisville to Indianapolis.
"Why, sir" he answered, fright off
there pointing to the east from the
j Jeff road) in the edge of Johnson,
Shelby and Bartholomew counties"
.sHow do you like the rural prac
tce compared with the city? p was
asked.
"Well, ! assure you we lad our
peculiar fun out there in the woody
region and along the mud roads"
"Cant you give me some of your
experience old boy?" was the next
interrogative appeal
"Mayhe Yes. Don't mind. | just
think of sne of my funniest. They
generally occurred in obstetrical
cases. Fact is, a good many of the
backwoods country young married
woman make out to get up regular
Barnum show when they add to our
population. They excite their hus-
bands to the pitch of frenzy, and the
benedicts rush off on their tieetest
horse in bewildering despair for the
doctor / remember one codger
whose family | doctored regularly.
His wife was exceedingly prolific, but
her house full of children equal to that
domicile ornamented with its twelve
innocent prattlers,' did not rival her
husbands propensity for hounds and
bull pups and conglomerate ours of all
degrees. He had a score of savage
dogs. His wife was in labor, and her
husband rushed over to my place,
three miles, in foam of hurry.
Mounting my fleet pony, | put my
spurs, and by the time | reached the
gate to my PATIENTS residence the
husband was half mile behind. |
had no more than got inside the gate
when the whole pack of snarling ours,
giving vent to dismal yelps of attack,
came at me. / wouldn't retreat; and
I was mad. Gathering couple OF
raw, green hoop-poles, | went in on
the defensive. The more | battled
the madden they got, and the more
they attacked the madden | got. One
side of the house had half-subterra-
mean she'd, and | registered small
oath, then and there, childbirth or no
child birth, that I'd lick that pack OF
dogs if it took me all summer, and
drive them into that shed. So whoop-
-whoop / went, and bow, WOW
WOW they yelped, and as fast as I'd
flax out one Of the internal brutes, and
send him yelping and bloody and
crouching to the shed (Which was
their kennedy others, fresh. entered
the fray. The inmates of the house
were the neighborhood women nurses
who always drop in on such occasions
The doctors awful row and racket
with the dogs seemed to paralyze
the old gals. Some of them came on
the porch and gazed, speeches.. Up
galloped the proprietor. He could
barely open a way OF safety for me to
the house, so infatuated and uncon-
trollable had his dogs become; and he
pleaded with me to go in to the pa
tent
Did you not go, Doc?' inquired
eagerly.
Go? Why, no. had a job OF
dog-fght on hands, and | told old 10
I'd whip them dogs before I'd move
one inch toward the house or gate.
So l banged away. One by one |
sent them with bloody heads whining
to the shed; and, finally, after an
hour as hard work as | ever did in
my life, / got the whelps licked, and
had them all shivering and licking
their bleeding wounds, hnddled up
under the shed. Then | walked,
like hero, into the house.
'What then ? calculated.
ooh, there it was-a bouncing boy
all safely arrived, while | was lickin'
them dogs, and | found mother and
child dom we'll as could be expected.
It was suggested to the disciple oil
Esculapius that the story would have
been better finished had it been a
fish story.
so YOU don't believe it, eh ? he in-
CURED. Well, then, | must tell you
another, and he did:
tom Smith had nice wife and
a fast horse. / had q tip-top pony
that | thought could get over more
| ground in less time then any other
mar down there in Johnson or vi
entity. Toms wife was near con-
fnement and that event always
SCARED Tom half to death. One
day he rode up in foam and de-
manded that l go instanter to bis
wife's bedside. "Doc, hurry, now
MarJ's awful sick. Get your darn
ed slow nag and come along. III
go back and help till you come
This imputation of slowness aroused
me. said, Tom, you see I'll have
to saddle up, but, I'd like to make 2
little bet with you. 'All right said
| Tom. Well, then I'll agree to lei
you start this minute, full speed
and if | cant get to your wife before
YOU do I'll attend her confinement
4 free, and if do, your to pay me
twenty-five dollars agreed said
| Tom, as he whirled his rig and shot
down the road in whiffy.
| My saddle was on in an instant.
gained on Tom. At one and hal
of the two miles was splashing mud
on him. Then l spurred up anc
passed him, and twas nip and tue
for WHILE
Did you get head2" l ASKED
in my eagerness.
Yes, by Jubiterl When my pony
lunged up against Toms gate h
uas within fiftv feet of me. but be