Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-06-14
\ Doctors Bow
BY EDMUND LYONS,

Years flew over both Of our heads be.
ioro | called him hy any other name
than The Doctors Boy. The village
lae" that lsc was a founding, because
he had been left at the door of old DIR.
Itfts hons" one cold Christmas-evc,
hat II WAS divided in opinion as to
"hsther he VAS a bad boy or good one.
Some thought he was the latter. some
ii" former | was perfectly satisfied
'hat he was wretchcdlv iniquitous
yoath, and tod him So He burst into
tears, and said | would change my
qHulon Of him some day.
But ut first he certainly gave me no
reason To do so. He compounded for
M a dose once to cure n headache Gor
l'r. Hart was not above keeping drugs
md making up his own prcscriptions)
that brought me to deaths door. and
u" Old doctor was put to his wits end
T. cnr" me-. But tho Boy went to my
mother md told her that it was his fixed
Intention to become great doctor and
chemist, and hal given him his first
opportunity to test his knowledge OF
Medicine. He had given me the wrong
drug, he acknowledged; but it was all
II III" interest of science, and he
Promised never to do so any more SO
nv mother t"rFaye him, and persuaded
IT Hart T. retainyllim III his service.
Il certainly was not on account of the
Boys good looks that his first misad
Venture resulted harmlessly to him. He
VAS an angular Boy Ho7 was a red
hored Eoy. He was frecklcI Boy.
iFf he was n frank Boy tat least my
mother said sol, and for two years moro
/" vas allowed To 60 about the village
aliHtng the doctors nostrnns, and
h"I"F himself, Ms | Thought, very OBJ
l,enar.h..
- Hart had no particular liking for
ID" by. He said the Boe>was Christ
nt2s eIf', aud, like all such presents.
e2.#d 'or something in return. Thus
h' Aai been obliged to board and clothe
'i' nd Tor seventeen years, and he al
WY protested that he was not worth
u outlay. Still, those who krew the
ter best were We'll assured Of the fact
90 i the Boy had not earued his board,
.. ;linG, and lodging he would not have
'''.Ned them. He WAS called, in later
''"is El'enezer Dorking, thongh what
s't.., he had to that lame nobody il the
g sge knew.
~ -A>t the Doctors Boy disappeared.
~ stole quietly away in the nighttime
's,N.9s not liue of writing behind him
: sav where he had gone: SO Mrs. Hart
suggested that he had robbed the till in
af druE.store. A search was mt once
EAat, and ,the fact was developed that
ee' en'y had 10 money been taken from
t"e "Ta"er, but that q new crisp five
'e.Ar h.l had been added to its con-
IS Inere seemed to be no doubt
'1', 'Ae Doctors Boy had placed ii
''4es', aAt the matter was nine days
.asS f,rH.o village. Then the docto
80 another boy, who interested no
- ami he Was soon discharged.
suppose il was due 10 the subject
e-''.''s oi conversation furnished by th
bE departure that l found m,se
:. e frequently than before in the dct
:, si'tlns-room. Agnes Hart was
''"N'liul girl. about sixteen years {
se' AID she laughed SO merrily at M
''.es oi the eccentricities of the Boy that
- af'dd exaggerated them little; bu
aesrees the recollection of the fug
seemed to pass out OF our lives. ap
SAeil' four years later, torrent of VS.
a"ep. over the country, was not thinl
1s 'i the Doctors Boy when I too
agnes Harris hand to say good-b