Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-03-20
Volume Kill mo. 40.

some company, and the wlmmen got
tt talking about the South, and asked
ma why she didn't 60 with pa, and ma
said she was we'll and hearty and didn't
have to 60. Then the wimmen whisper
ed spell, and ma went to the tele-
phone and telephonei to her doctor,
and he came, ad pretty soon ma was
in bed with her lungs bandaged, and
her heal tied up and water bags at
her back and feet, and when pa cane
home he was scared. The doctor had
such uournful look on his face, and
seemed t. be so anxious, that pa took
him in the bath room and said, Now
doc, | want YOU to tell he the worst.
Is she dangerous:' The doc said it
wac not his nature to unnecessarily
frighten anyone, but he said doctors
often had "a duty to perform that they
would prefer to transfer to other
shou ders. He said he would prefer
to wait before expressing all opinion.
but he thought it was quite safe to
say that unless the patient had
change of CHM te at once he should
ask to be allowed to withdraw from
the case, as he did not like to be held
responsible for what seemed to him to
be slow murder IN keeping delicate
woman in climate that was forty de-
grees below zero half the time, by Il
penurious husband. Pa was touched.
| could see that much through the
keyhole. The doc said pa would have
to approach the matter delicately, and
not let ma know she was dangerous,
or she wouldn't go, but just go in the
room sort Of cheerful, and laugh and
say, 'Hannar, if you will hurry up
and get better, and pack up, you can
60 with me to Florida The doc said
ma would probably refuse to 60, but
pa must insist. Well, pa went in
with laff he had borrowed. | guess,
cause it didn't sopnd like his at all,
and he said what the doc told him,
and ma was better right off. She said
she didn't want to 60 so far away from
her dear boy, but it pa thought it best
she would get up and pack up her
grip. Pa went out and | told ma she
had played it pretty fine, most as fine
a. pa did, and, and | was going to tell
pa about the wimmen putting the
idea into her head, and she said that
would spoil all, and then told her
wasn't feeling very we'll myself lately.
Ma smiled and asked me what my
symptoms were, and | told her when
| skated all the afternoon my legs
ached like the toothache, and when |
slid down nil al the evening my ears
rung. aud | had night sweats, and my
hands were chapped, and felt faint
before breakfast, and had corn on
one toe, and my lungs felt as though
they wanted greasing with fresh orange
Juice, and cold chills came over me
about nine o'clock, when the school
bell rung, and my momory was failing
SO | forgot to split the kindling wood,
and | told her if | had time could
think of twice as many things that
allied me as she and pa both. Ma said
| was evidently in q bad state, and
she wanted me to 60, but she didn't
want to spring too much on pa at
once, SO | better 90 into decline, and
NOPE around and shiver, and then
see doctor and get the doctor to 60
to pa in in contide.lce and ask him if
he didn't want to save the life of his
little boy. So | went to see horse
doctor that works at the livery stable,
who saved our COW when she got u
carrot stuck in her throat, and he said
he would see pa about me. Pa and
the horse doctor worked the same
ward in politics last fall, and got pret-
ty familiar, and when pa came home
and found me soaking my feet in
mustard water, and looking like the
last run of shad, though l never COM
planned at all, pa said he guessed |
better 60 down to the store and get a
new pair of pants and 60 with him
and ma to Florida. Then knew the
horse doctor had been getting in his
work on pa"
And so you are going South,
whole family of frauds. eh' said the
groceryman, as he bit off the string
from the paper of crackers.
Yes, that's the intention" said the
bad boy, rs he grabbed IA" turnip
aod peeled it. and began t, eat as
though he had tasted for Il week.
Yes we are going unless We get too
conicuuded well;' and he went out
with his hand sled to catch onto
p ssing sleigh but happening to re.
mem er that he was sick he wandered
aimlessIy down the sidewalk, occa-
sionalIy giving vent to a hark from
the tombs cough that he had been
practicing on, which caused people to
turn and look at the boy with COM
passion.