The Somerset reporter., 1885-12-02
SELECTED.
A Wild Western Yarn.

There's a big difference i'll doctors, |
tell you, said an old timer to me the 9th
cr day. you think you know something
about EN-, but You arc still in the hail and
bloom and kindgartcn of life. Wait TIL
you've been through what have
Nv here, for instanccl" | asked him.
well, saying nothing about anything
else, just look at the doctors we had il
the war we had a doctor in our regi-
mcnt that looked as II he knew SO much
that it made him unhappy. | found out
aftcrWard that he ran kind of COW
70 ndling asylum in [ tab before the war,
and when he had To prescribe for Il hum
AN being il seemed to kind of rattle him.
Il fell DIN my horse earl in the cam
paign and broke my leg, rickolect, and
he sot the bone. He thought that the
bone ought to be set similar to hen,
He made what he called a good splice, but
the break was above the knee, and he got
the COW idea into his head IL a way that
set the knee behind. That was bad.
II told him one day that he was Il
blamed fool. lie gave me cigar and
told me must be n min1l-reader.
dor several weeks our colonel couldn'
eat anything, and seemed to iecl kind OF
billion He didn't know what the troubl,
was till he went to the doctor lie looked
at the colonel a few minutes, examined
his tongue, and told him right oil thai Ii,
| had lost h cud.
'lle Dragged good deal on his diagno
sis He said he would like to see the dis
case he cou dnt diagonose with one han1
tied behind him.
'lle was always telling how he had re
susticated man they hung over at /,
City in the early day. He wa, hung by
mistake, it sceneI. II was dark night
and the vigilance committee Was in some
thing Of hurry, having another party t,
hang over at Dirty Noman's ranch thai
night, and 50 they enormously hung 4
quiet young Teller from Illinois, who hao
been sent West To cure ease OF bronchi
IS. He was right in the middle of an tx
PLANTATION when the heal yigilantcs kickee
the board from under him and broke his
neck.
IAN at once some one said My God
we have made ridiculous blunder. Boys
we cant be too careful about hanging 10
tai strangers. A few more such break:
as these, nd people from the states vii
hesitate about coming here to make thcil
home We have always claimed that this
was good country for bronchitis, but l.
we write to Illinois and tell this youns
feller's parents the facts, we needn't lool
for very large hegira from Illinois mex
season. Doc. can't you do anything fo
this young mani!
Then this hys ,cian stepped forward
he SAWS, and put his knee on the back o
the boys neck, gave it tile push at thu
same time pulled the head back with I
snap that Strengthened the neck, and tn
Young fellow, who was in the middle of ;
large word, something like C ntumely
when the barrel tipped over, finished GU
the word and went right on with the e1
PLANTATION, The doctor said he lived
good many year, and was loved aud Is
teemcd by all who knew him.
The doctor was always tellin. Of hi
triumphs in surgery. He did save soo'
many lives, too, toward the close OF tn
war. lie did it in an odd way, too.
.lIe had about one year more to serve
and, with his doctoring on one side. an
the hostility OF the enemy on the other
our regm mt was wore down to abou
i've hundred men. Everybody said "
couldn't stand it more than another yeaI
one day. however, the ,.octor had jus
measured man for a porous plaster. an
b. d laid the stub OF his cigar CAREFUL
down on the p of a red powder Ike.
when ere was slight atmospheric di'
turbance, the smell of burnt clothes, an
our regiment had to apply for new su
ge0n.
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