Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-04-11
AMXSTER'Oas ID SAPPEAuANCE.
A queer Story which No One is Bound
TO believe.
From the Hartford Times.l

"No, gentlemen, am not supersti-
tious," said the old doctor, setting down
his punch bowl with considerable empha.
sis. 81 am plain, practical man and
never had but one event in my life which
gave me the slightest touch OF the super
natural. All my long professional career
has been as readable as piece of news
paper. l have traced everything to n
cause and understood effects without any
effort of imagination.
"But once you had a thrill If real ST.
perstition, did you? Do tell us about it |!
After all the stories we have been giving
ourselves away with, 1 should think YOU
might end up the night with a start
Ter ~
The speaker was young fellow. full of
fun and his new diploma, which gave his
entree to this pleasant coterie which met
semi to compare notes" and
quaff good punch.
"Well, have no objections, " looking
with indulgent eyes into the bright. earn.
est face before him, "but more than ever
you must remember our motto % and he
raised bottle OF champagne from the
table on which was prominently display
ed the word "Mumm."
All settled comfortably into their chairs
and prepared to listen. The "old doctor
was the president OF the association "
His years, his skill, his beneyolence. his
unspotted record, had won the love and
respect OF all who knew him. Profes-
siOnal envy was impossible toward him
for, having made an ample fortune, he
had for the last ten years chiefly visited
the poor, whose addition to his purse and
detraction from the income of others wos
hardly worth mentioning" AS he sat
with his feet resting on the tender Of his
open fire, his strong, good face ruddy-
with the blaze and with his oycelIent
health and moderate potation of the de-.
licious beverage ho IopIed H. oiie We,
whose virtues had indeed been their own
reward, in the rounding ont of a true and
beautiful life. lie began in a ,,l,,s; NV
tone:
zone night | was about to retira loo
tors don't have chance often. Won know
when somebody knocked. rThorn was
not any bell, for was then precticing IN
far western town. last redeemed from
savagery. as it we're. A rough loo,inn
man came in, and pulling off his hat
shuffied from one foot to the other, and
he burst out, You're a doctor, amt We ,
WAL I'm in a peck o. trouble Tfstbo
leetle gal, yer see She's sick md
eenamost dyin' I'm afraid Rut oan,,
stay by her, by George cant no how
She's all alone. and nobody lnano n 10y.
Fact is, hev to git up and Git We how
been wanderin' around like lost shoe,
till we struck that little cabin or nT1v sie9l
yes hev, right off, Corn me-, gov 70 get
and help her somehow? | don't know
what's the marter of her she's been .
pinin' and pinin. Oh, God what kin
do, what kin do?" The Door fellow
burst out crying and sobbed Iika y
child.
OF course / will goinstantlv T sold
and had even then put on nv az ercnot
Where is the cabin?'
''He started up from the seat wbare i,
had half fallen and said, "It's sevn,
miles straight on beyond the last end -
Farmerton. The road is as STRAIGHT os 9 ,
line. It's cabin with some rails n;Ie;
high up against the side with rad p ai''.
tings. It's about eight mile ont = 0''
81 know, said l, briefly, 4 bovo hco,
by there and have seen a pretty yo nIe
girl at the window" ii'''S young
That's her, that's her bo so;,
frightening up. 'Yas, shes bo ne oa saiu =.
all over, bless herr Wont vou 10 ioo ,,n's'
level best for her, doctor p he an mn yTui
with gesture, face and tone J wd"Idns
leave-but-I must "ouiuh
"'When are you COMING booL OF
toned, while we waited for NV ba.ll ne =
be brought around. my Hof'' ''