The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-05-21

and had q family. After we had
held consultation went to pa and
told him that what he said about
being alive might possibly be true,
though we had our doubts. We had
found such cases before in our
pratice east, where men seemed to
be alive, but it was only temporary.
Before we had got them cut up they
were dead enough for all practical
purposes. Then l laid the iciclc
across pas abdomen, and went on
to tell him that even if he acos alive
it would be better for him to play
that he was dead, because he was
such a nuisance to his family that
they did not want him, and ! was
telling him that / had heard that in
his lifetime he was very cruel to his
boy, a bright little fellow who was at
the head of his class in Sunday
school, and pet wherever he was
known, when pa interrupted me and
said, doctor, please take that carv-
ing knife off my stomach, for it
makes me nervous. AS for that boy
of mine, he is the condemndist
little whelp in this town,
and he isn't no pet anywhere.
Now, you let up on this dissectin'
business, and will make it all right
with you?' We held another consul
tation and then told pa that we did
not feel that it was doing justice to
society to give up the body of
notorious drunkard, after we had
paid twenty dollars for the corpse.
If there was any hope that he would
reform and try and lead a different
life, it would be different, and 1
said to the boys, gentlemen, we
must do our duty. Doc, you dis
member that leg, and 1 will attend
to the stomach and the upper part
of the body. He will be dead.
before we are done with him. We
must remember that society has
some claims on us, and not let our
better NATURES be worked upon by
the post morton promises of dead
drunkard. Then 1 took my icicle
and began fumbling around the
abdomen portion of pas remains,
and my chum took rough piece of
ice and began to saw his leg off,
while the other boy took hold of
the leg and SAID he would catch it
when it dropped off. Well, pa kicked
like steer. He said he wanted to
make one more appeal to us, and we
acted sort of impatient but we let ND
to hear what he had to say. He said
if we would turn him loose he would
give It's ten dollars more than we paid
for his body, and that he would never
drink another drop MS long as he lived.
Then we whispered some more and
then told him we thought favorably
of his last proposition, but he must
swear, with his hand on the leg of a
corpse we were then dissecting that
he would never drink again, and then
he must be blindfolded and be con-
Quoted several blocks away from the
dissecting room, before we would
turn him loose. He said that was all
right, and so we blindfolded him, and
made him take bloody oath, with
his hand ON a piece of ice that we told
him was piece Of another corpse,
and then we took him cut of the
house and walked him around the
block four times, and left him on
corner, after he had promised to send
the money to an address that 1 gave
him. We told him to stand still FIVE
minutes after we left him, then re-
move the blindfold, aud go home.
We watched him, from'hehind board
fence, and he took off the handker-
chief, looked at the name ON q street
lamp, and found he was not far from
home. He started off saying: 'sThat's
q pretty narrow escape old man. No
more whisky for you." l did not see
him again until this morning, and
when asked him where he was last
night he shuddered and said mono
your darn business. But / never
drink any more, you remember that
Ma was tickled and she told me was
worth my weight in gold. Well, good
day. That cheese Is nusty." And
the hoy went and caught on a pass
Ing sleigh. -Ieck's Sun.