The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-13

SSh "AiASS W6ttc0 tOI HtEKA. ' uENGt O dun much doctorin' for myself but I'd seen enuf uther folks sick. so knew jest about what ter do. sent Joe fust thing up garrit ter git me CT big bunch O thuE- erwort. l tell ye nov, Mrs. Mannin', thar's nuthin' like thurerwort ter break up CT fever.
 "W ell, jest stripped of that thurer-
 wort, leaves an blows an steeped it 'til ther tea was jist as black as ink, it was so strong, an drunk nigh ontsr three pints ont whilst was CT soakin' my feet in hot mustard water til they was nigh about parb'iled, then put on sum salt pork drafts with CT lot O red pepper spr inkled on 'em, an put anuther piece round my neck then drunk about CT quart O composition tea, made good an strong an hot ez could swaller it, an' took half duzzen Herrickses pills an went ter bed ter wait fer the doctor. There didn't enny O it seem ter du CT bit O good. really b'l'eve felt wus then did afore. o, Lord thort should die, but bimeby the doctor cum, an artes told him how awfully sick I wuz feelin', he wanted ter know if I'd dun ennythiug fur myself. An sez, sez l, Yis, doctor, I did try an du CT leetle sumthin' but it don't seem ter du one mite O good
 "Then he wanted ter know jest what I'd dun, an when l told him he looked kinder queer an ser, sez he:
 "'I should think, Mrs. Kimble you'd about bin thru the hull farm O po'ltry-"
 Been through what2" asked.
 "Thru ther farm O poltry, leastwise thet's what he sed.
 70, see," light beginning to break. Pharmacopeia, he meant you had taken about all the medicines on the list already"
 ".Good land ! and wuz that what he me'nt? Why on airth couldn't he say so, then ]? How could tell what his Greek an Latin me'nt, why couldn't he talk English ez du? Ther only thing could think O wuz that sumtimes when we wanter kill an old hen in CT hurry an can't drive em inter coop, we jist run lem down and thort mebbe he me'nt I'd bin ketchin' hens that way. Sakes alive an all he me'nt wuz medisun We'll, never!
 "Howsumdever wuz too awful sick ter ask him what he me'nt, only ask'd him ter hurry up an du sumthin', fer kep' growin' sicker sicker ev'ry mini, but he kinder seemed ter hang back and bimeby he ser, sez he:.
 -"'I think, Mrs. Kimble, you've dun about all that's ec'sary tonight an I'll cum round in ther mornin' an see what effect your medisun has,
 "An' ez tru ez you live he jist took up his hat an walked out without doin' CT plaguy thing fer me. Wasn't mad, tho | If hadn't bin so awful sick I'd CT gin | him CT piece O my mind he wouldn'ter forgot in CT hurry.
 "l don't b1'eve you ever seed enny poor, miser'ble critter sicker'n l wuz fer the next few hours. thort sure it wuz 'he last O me. Cut bimeby that medi- sun begun ter take hold, an yer better b'Peve felt ez limpsy ez CT dishrag. Arter while went ter sleep an when walked lp in ther mornin' kin tell you felt 'ritty middlin' kinder slim, but the men, sittus wuz all gone. Ther boys they jist made me CT good strong cup O green ca an fried CT nice slice O ham with CT good lot O bread fried in ther gravy, m arter I'd eat that an sum O the cold pork an cabbage rum yisterday's dinner, begun ter feel real kinder cumfert'ble m by the time ther doctor cum I wuz ittin' up an loekin' real kinder chirp.
 He looked kinder surprised ter see nc, thort, an I sez, ser I, It's all that hurerwort, doctor, there's nothin' like it,
 bTeve should CT died without it.
 "'l thort you'd die with it, sez he, ookin' kinder queer.
 "I knew ther night afore he thort l Vuz awful sick, an guess, arter all, he suz afeard ter gin me ennything, fer fear mite say his med:sun killed me. He never charged ennything, an if he lad wouldn'te paid it, fur it wuz ther hururwort did ther bizness arter all.
 "To be sure my neck an' feet wuz blis- cred with the pork an pepper drafts an felt kinder weak an' shaky, an couldn't at much fer a day CT two but then ther nengittus wuz all gone, an haven't had 1T tech of it sence.
 Now, l dare say," concluded my in- eresting narrator, Chat jist CT like CT lot your doctor never gin you CT single {