Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-20
GENERAL ITEMS.
The iiIiaoc Dpctpi.

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/ And of muscle and fibre learncdlv speak
In doggerel Latin and disused Greek.
He knew the virtues of catnip tea
And the healing balm of the Juniper tree,
Boncset and saffron, flag and thyme
winch our mothers used in the good old
time,
Before the hurrying days of steam,
Cremation and nitroglyccrine.
Even the rag-weed. growing rank
on the dusty turnpikc's shelving bank.
Was found specific for certain ills,
| Taken with rhubarb, salts or pills,
| W hlle SarSaparlla and yellow dock
And the root of the Haunting hollvhock
IN various ways each served their part
In the mystic rites of the healing art
No bookworm he who at expense
| OF outdoor knowledge and common sense.
G"nhed the learned pages till life grew
IndlStlnCt with a dreamy hue
None in Sudbury better knew
The sign of rain when the east wind blew
Damp and chill from the sea beat shore,
W here g-bankS mutiled the breakers roar
" hen for an early spring to hope,
The change of the moon for making SOAP:
When to plant and how to till
Inc Yankee corn on the steep side hill
What breed Of cattle would thrive and fat
On the salt sea grass of DuXbury flat
Two roads from the mountains winding
down
Into the heart of sudbury town.
one from the east and one from the west,
Tough and rugged at their best
But doubly so when the wintrv blast,
Piercing cold from the chill northeast
lieaped the pixies with drifting snow,
Filling the valleys down below,
I'M the beaten roadway, clothed in white
Gave no sign to the dazzed sight;
Vet summer and winter wears untold,
Through bIlStprlDp heat and l,iti,,r COLD
DIR. Leech and his IRON gray,
Ger the rough and stony way,
PlOddcd on with scarce a pause
through autumn rams and springtme thaws.
His battered gig see it vet.
with JngIIng burS and tires half set;
Its WeIldished wheels had webbing GAIT,
And clicking sound, when little late,
ne doctor IN haste touched up old Jim
WIN the Wlthcred branch from an apple
limb,
Till spoke and felloc rang again,
W I'm the changing bolts in Il glad refrain,
leI1lng as PLAN as words could tell
Inc doctor had come and all was we'll
In winter time his old blue sleigh
was lIrSt to break through the drifted WaV
Ana ms mammoth slelghbellS loud and
clear,
Broke ON the patients listening ear,
And the dng-dong chorus of every bell
GU . "'''
Year after year the old refrain
Rang o cr the wastes of SvCncv's plain,
Came fast but clear like a fairy chime,
from irbanon's hilItOpS, black with pine,
I'M the village people used to hold
mat never was night SO bleak and cold
WIn,lim,, ,I, r .',1' io'n vi tiie west
The Doctors Lii ,,'> ~ It'll 'leS''
Win thnir io,,,,i;, " ',' Ne' iIe'I"'
"A Ii we'll all : we'll W.
Inc bloom OF thirty summers fed
HE young grew Old, the old were dead,
Railroads stretched their iron bands
Through the valley, where Sinewy hands
of black njna roa and ro, 'o rn STORE
wv
Along the river the jarriug mills
Woke rumbIing echoes among the hills,
The vandal AK had slain the wood,
And toWboats sailed whore the tamarack
\ ct summer and winter, day by day,
Ut. leech and his iron gray
lIodded on III the same old STYLE
ear after year, mile after mile
But the masters haIr was white as snow,
a. me- |np', g"' EreW weak ana SLOW
I,oo" '''' mn "''i snall'pl'iiS
Limb held rein and 1or,,l;,,,, tro.,o
Net fine Doctors honrt ia 80 - a, ,l
with the changing years that had made him
old,
ana never better pleased was he
nan WIN the children about his knee,
Or quaint old ballad of anrinit t;n,n l''>'
~,
me tIaSicai winter OF htty-hve
Tou''" liIc DOCTOR stllI alive
Fiercer winds had never h hIirU~'''
Than those which svert New EngIand,. hin.
Cracked the huge rocks with fririJ c,ld
Stitfened the tockS within, tno XII '
Till the sturdy sons of pivmnnth S;r..s
Cowed and trenbled beside thrIr fires
Twas tvoIvo o,,.,,,,,I- 49,, .........,
That Jerry HopLins and arm ,.'' WL i,'''
LISTENING cau1ht tbe distant rLin,n
Ofthe Doctors sIcirhhrIIs kennin, tir,o
To the measured treod Of thn ran S2r .',l''
Coming M from sudbury w,v
With shiverin, ,,rman a. ho t T'',', la
And ppering ONT tIrnnrI the frn.t> ,, 49, 0'
Saw the Doctor win %1acL,ann liT ro;, p''i''
Drive SLOWLY by. i'm the whita Inon',Ii,rbt
With never a look tn Ieft or rI,,ht s'''''
God pity all who re forced to bear
Inc biting frost and singing air
VI Sllch a night, Trend jerry said,
IullhS the comfort over his head.
t',i,,tor and f,;,,,,r ,,r,.,,. .r,,,.,,.;
I-shnri,,,, IN thn t,r7It,'' 'i,G viI'''e
On the nlght-wlndS rose and fell
me plhlhlVe words, "aIls well alFs well. ~