News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-02-16
Vaccination.
THE STORY A SCHOOL GIRL TELLS.

/ LIE OAohA n 0C11OOh IEDlIS.
am only school girl, but I an
going to try and tell you about tn,
terrors vaccination has for us. A shor
time ago our teacher read to us abou
the resolution passed by the STATE
Board of Health in regard to vaccina
ton, and he said that every scholar
must be vacclnated within the following
week, or they could not attend school
OhlI wish you could have seen the
wry faces of the girls, and hear theil
ordinations of "Oh, MY" "Ain't
that mean p' "Oh, dear l'' "The old
hateful p etc. The boys put on broad
grin, but that grin was very expressive.
Anyone could tell they were more scared
than the girls were. Indeed, there was
such dread of it that the next morn
ing only one scholar had been vaccina
ted. He proudly announced to the
girls that he chad been vaccinated. y
And all the girls exclaimed, "Did it
hurt ?" "Hurt? 1 should think it
did You girls can never stand it
Why, he took a knife and cut hole
then put in some virus, and sewed it up.
I tell you it takes boy with grit"
One of the girls spoke up, and said :
''There's one thing 1 wish, and that is,
the doctors would all vaccinate every
boy on their right arm, SO they couldn't
SNOWFALL u.s." That evening was at a
ne1ghbor's house, where the man of the
house was going to vaccinate his two
boys himself. He said he had enough
virus for three, and asked me if I didn't
want to be vaccinated. I hesitated ; L
knew I must be sometime and why not
now, 1 asked myself. At last said
yes, and pulled up my sleeve. "WeI,
who shall 1 begin with, +" said Mr.. L -.
"You, Jim ?'' "No, sir, with John" he
answered, promptly. "Ohl I won't do
it. You go first, Add"
But I shrank back, and answered
very decidedly that would rather see
some one else first. Mr.. l. put an
end to the dispute by grabbing hold of
the youngest, and commenced scratch
ing his arm with a pen-knife. After
using that for about two minutes, he
threw it down, declaring that sit was
too dull" He then tried the scissors,
but they wouldn' do. He next tried a
couple of darning-needles and they
seemed 10 have the desired effect-on
the boy, anyhow, by the way he kicked
and screamed; and I didn't blame him,
either. By the time my turn had come
I was pretty well scared, and thought
seriously of backing out; but when it
was over felt very glad I didn't, and
I was so relieved that the dreadful time
was over. The next day went with
two other girls to doctors office to
see them vaccinated. One of them sat
down III the chair, and when everything
was ready she found that she couldn't
get her sleeve ur, it was 50 tight. The
doctor told her to go in the next room
and take off her dress. Then her cour-
age failed her, and she sobbed out that
she guessed she would wait till to NOR
row, The other told the doctor she
would go home and get her mother to
come with her; and they both left the
Office with chattering teeth, and more
scared than when they went.
If you go within three feet of any one
nowaday, it is, "Oh, my arm T. or,
"Look out for my arm !" I know l
will have your pity and sympathy when
tell you that my vaccir alton "didnt
take" and / must be vaccinated again.
News.