Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-05

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head completely covered with short,
golden-brown curls.
Her real name was Eliza, but her
brothers and sisters, of whom she had
goodly supply, called her by the
pretty pet name of Lila"
One bright sunny afternoon Lila's
eldest sister, Nan, sat in the large, old
fashioned kitchen, picking over dried
beans for baking.
Nan had on a big blue-checked apron,
and held bright tin pan in her lap,
into which she threw all of of the good
BEANS,
Little Lila had been playing for ever
an hour, call by her lone SELF" as she
expressed it, and was getting dread
fully tired, when all of sudden she
heard the beans rafting into the big
tin can. This caused the dimples to
dance into view and the blue eyes to
sparkle, as Lila quickly threw down
her toys and soon stood by her sisters
side.
"Don't touch the beans, Lila" said
Nan.
Me wants some to pay wiv," said
Lila, coaxingly.
No, not one" said Nan, rather i'm
patiently, for she felt anxious to get
through, and didn't want to be both
cred.
Then, quick as a flash, Lila's little
fat hand buried Itself in the midst of
the "pitty white fngs," as she called
them, and before her sister realized
what she was doing, she ran across the
room, one chubby hand shut tight and
filled with beans.
Nan put the pan down and ran after
her, and feeling sure she would catch
her and take the beans away, Lila in
stantly put them into her mouth.
"You naughty child!" said Nan,
catching hold of Lila and trying to
make her spit the beans out of her
mouth.
But Lila struggled to get away,
commenced to cry, then to cough, and
terrible to relate, she sucked one of
the beans right down her throat into
the windpipe.
But Nan didn't know this. When
Lila commenced to cough two or three
beans flew out of her mouth, and Nan
thought it was all Lila had.
AS for poor little Lila, she was too
young to understand that she had
sucked one of the beans into her wind
pipe, only her throat hurt her dread
fully, and SO she kept on crying until
her mother came into the room.
Nan began to feel little frightened,
so she told her mother truthfully Just
what had happened,
Little Lila grew worse so rapidly
that the family doctor was sent for,
and when he came and heard what had
occurred he looked very grave, and
said at once that nothing but an OPP
Grafton would save the child's life, and
what was to be done must be done
quickly, for the bean was swelling rap
idly and would soon cause her death.
He also thought it best to send for
two other doctors.
Poor little Lila! This terrible acct
dent happened many years ago, long
before the discovery of chloroform, SO
it was much more difficult and danger
GUS to perform the operation; still, it
was the only chance of saving her life,
and must be done.
know it will make you feel badly,
dear little readers, and I can imagine
your eyes -blue, black, and brown
filed full of tears, when I tell you that
they laid little three-year Lila on
the table, and while the two assistant
physicians held her hands and feet
DR.. johnson performed the terrible
operation of cutting open her throat,
then cutting the windpipe and taking
out the swollen bean that so nearly
caused her death.
Dear little Lila screamed and strug-
gled, then tainted and soon it was all
over. Then the doctors waited, one
holding his watch, while DR.. John
son held his ear down to hear if she
breathed again, while little Lila lay as
if dead
In the other room her poor, dis