Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-01
THE LANCASTER

tiess thae had lUplsd into his head al
the funeral. and over which he had
chuckled - he shoveled the earth into
the grave Of the doctors disciple. It had
occurred 10 him. that, - the situation Of
the deceased was vacant at the doctors,
The boy had parts, and could pound {
pestle and run an errand with any boy IN
the town-and what more was wanted In
q STUDENT
The suggestion Of the sage Peter was q
vision Of glory to the mother. She al
ready saw Dolph, In her minds eye, with
o cane at his nose, q knocker at his door.
and an N. d. at the end Of his name
one Of the established dignitaries of the
town.
The matter, once undertaken, was soon
effected; the sexton had some influence
with the doctor, they having had much
dealing together In the way Of their sep
arate professions; and the very next
morning he called and conducted the
urchin. clad in his Sunday clothes, to
undergo the inspection Of DR.. Karl Lodo-
wick knipperhausen.
They found the doctor seated in en-
elbow chair, in one corner Of his study or
laboratory, with o large volume In Ger
man print, before him. He was short,
fat man, with a dark, square face, rem
dered more dark by black velvet cap.
He had little, knobbed nose. not un-
like the ace Of spades, with a pair Of
spectacles cleaning on each side Of his
dusky countenance. like q couple Of bow
windows.
Dolph felt struck with awe, on enter.
ing into tho presence of this learned man;
and gazed about him with boyish
wonder at tho furniture Of this cham.
bcr Of knowledge, which appeared
to him almost as the den Of a magician.
In the center stood q claw footed table,
with pestle and mortar, phials and GALL.
pots, and a pair of small. FURNISHED
scales. At one end was heavy clothes
press, turned into receptacle for drugs
and compounds, against which hung the
doctors hat and cloak and gold headed
cane, and on tho top grinned human
skull. Along the mantelpiece werc glass
vessels, In which were snakes and lizards,
and human fetus preserved In spirits.
A closet, tho doors Of which were taken
of. contained three whole shelves Of
books, and some, too, of mighty folio
dimensions--a collection the like Of
which Dolph had never before beheld.
As, however, the library did not take up
tho whole Of the closet, the doctors
thrifty housekceper had occupied tho
rest with pots of pickles and preserves,
and had hung about the room, among
awful implements Of the healing art,
strings OF red pepper and corpulent Gu
cunbers, carefully preserved for seed.
Peter de Groodt and his protege were
received with great gravity and statcli-
ness by the doctor, who was very wise,
dignitied little man, and never smiled.
He surveyed Dolph from head to foot,
above and under, and through his specta-
cles; and the poor lads heart quaifed as
these great glasses glared on him like
two full moons. The doctor heard all
that Peter de Groodt had to say in favor
of the youthful candidate, and then,
wetting his thumb with the end of his
tongue, he began deliberately to turn
over page after page of the great lack
volume before him. At length. after
many huns and haws, and strokings of
the chin, and all that hesitation and de-
liberation with which wise man pro-
ceeds to do what he intended to do from
the very first, the doctor agreed to take
the lad as \ disciple; to give him bed,