Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

zap SdG tno Itule DOy. one was 1OOhIuS
tenderly at Mr.. Wood, and he was talking
to the boy as if he had made up his mind
to be very good to him-for his mothers
sake. Then l knew it was all settled.
The Two Horse Physicians.
Esteline Bell
One evening this week two strangers
arrived at an Estelline hotel. They came
from opposite directions and had never
met before. Each carried battered and
hungry bookings grip and each had the ap
pearance of being largely responsible in
his own estimation for the existence of
the universe.
After supper they got into this CONVEX
sation:
''Trav'lin fur?" asked one.
mo futher'n' this-goin' back down to-
morrow"
'"Bout Their same with me, I'm goin'
back up in Their mornin'.''
"Ah I'm from down and your from up.
Y our business, stranger?"
veterinary surg'n, sir-hoss doctor, i
you prefer
''Hey! Well, that's me, too"
''Is that so?"
eyes, [ make it my business treating
flesh. Is'pose you don't do nothin' bout
cow"
me? Never"
''Of cou'se motive no use for COW
doctor. Pardner, I say boss is Their
noblest work of man! Well, I have cur
ed some pretty sick horses in my time,
pardner."
eyes. So've. l."
''Of cOu'se, we all have"
II handled one of Their sickest bosses I
s'pose that was ever cvred by human
skill. It had laid there in Their stall over
week and hadn't ct nothin' but few
straws. I give him a little nux vom'ky,
bled him bout a pailful and blamed If he
didn't git up and kick man outer Their
barn inside of nour and terday he's
one of the best bosses in Their territory
and trots inside of three minutes"
swell, [ had a case somethin' like it
bout two years back only this boss had
been down fer month and hadn't had
his eyes open fer week. I prescribed
nux vom'ky and bled him a couple Nv
pals or so and purity soon he was all right
gin. Owners since refused 5000 fer
him.
TheOe was short pause during which
the other referred to a note book. Then
he said:
II was jist Iookin' up on case once
had. That boss had never he'd no good
health and had been layin' in his stall fer
something like year. Well, ter make a
long story short I brought him out
all right, pardner!'
"Good boss after that?"
''You bet he was!''
''Neyer sick again?'
''Never-sound's dollar!''
II don't doubt it at all, stranger, cos I
had wuss case myself"
"Hey?"
II say 1 had more ser'us case myself -
The other pretended to look around the
room uncOncerned,
''Yea, was sent fer and went up en- a
hurry. [ never was SO beat in my life as
just for I got there"
'Whot was the matter?"
''Why, I met the man hauling that air
boss out by the heels! burned if I didn t
pardner! Thought he was dead, yer, see,
| and he was just the same as dead. Well, [
had some nux vom'ky with. me so I give it
to ther boss and drawed Their heft of Their
blood out of him and-blamed eff I like to
say it, stranger!'
ooh, go ahead" said the other, trying
to suppress his emotion.
swell, sir, Their man rode that air boss
back to Their house, did fer an honest
factr"
Il don't doubt it,"
eyer don't. Well, yer the fust''
"That's strange. I see nothin' unlikely
bout it,
"Hey?" demanded the other rising.
"Why don't you, stranger, why don't you,
eh?"
ooh, nothin' much"
eyes there is-out with it."
ooh, we'll, you know [ had a case once
myself
''NOt wuss'n' that
ETH tell you. I came long ter a small
town and noticed a number of dead
bosses layin' round the outskirts. Says I
ter a man:
"' What's all them bosses doing out
there?
"'Wel,' says he, I calkilate they amt
dom nuthin'-they're dead, mister
"'Oh,' says I, 'mebby they be and meb-
by they bent
"'Well,' says he, there came sort or
epperdemick and we hauled 'em out fer
luck
''Well, went over ter where they we're
lying"
He paused as if throug h when the said,
excitedly:
''You didn't revive 'em?"
"Oh, I was comm to that. give 'em
some nux vom'ky and bled 'em."
Eyes, Nv cou'se."
81 doctored 'em long couple Nv hours,
Tell you it was a hard case"
"Y on bet it was! You didn't fetch 'em
1ow?"
Il didn't say So"
mo, cou'se not, but did you?"
''Well, sir, I'm under the impression that
did"
snake well bosses Nv 'em?"
"There was never no weller at the end
Nv two hours. Pardner, we had to run
them air bosses down on a thor'u'bred to
catch 'em I've got the papers to prove
every word Nv it!'
The other sank down in his chair and
they sat and glared at each other. They
only started up when the proprietor
came in and said they must pay in ad-
vance as he didn't like the looks of their
baggage.
A Primary Lesson.