Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-02-28


fasting member, a leader In "prah.meetin's,"
as one called TO wa @ u perpetual warfare,
so she said. against Satan aud his imps, and
Mon Rhody held that Friday was the DEVILS
own day.
.Hukkom know dat" said she. DO is
signs a.plcuty. Doan' cv'ybody see jay-buds
/ Is skaase o. Fridays, 'loug o. totin' sticks
ter mon de iiahs bclowl Whom You see mis-
chance happen o. dat day. debbil got han
| In dat job oy me ms o. his ministers, sho'ly
mon perticslar eifen moon changes"
/ When Il was suggo ted that the doctor
should be sent for, Nom Rhody shook her
head aud snId No white mans doctor top
side o. do yeih cou.dn' do SIS Tempe no
guodn
"Mom Rhody did not hesitate TO express
this opiniou 10 Mawse Tom himself, seeing
| that she had ''raisedn him. But Mawse Tom
would not listen TO such nonsense, he said,
and as Aunt Tempe had now been lying Ill
some DAYS without Improvement, Christie
pher Columbus was dispatched for the fam
| ily physician who folt Aunt Tompe's pulse
and looked at her tongue. and asked II she
had any pain
Aunt Tempe said mo; only general
gin-out.m The doctor thought at first that
ahe was "playing possum, but day by day
1 she grow worse, until at last II was indispu'
, table that she was very IN She could not
move, except 10 turn her poor head upon her
pillow, and roll her oyos besccchingly The
power OF speech was gone.
~ done told Mawse Tom he gwan fling
AWAY his money ON white mans doctorW
grumbled Nom Rhody. "En nowI tell you,
Mis- Mamie, honey, Sis Tempe is done gin
up ter die, douteu Doctor Bob Is sent fur"
Doctor Bob should have borne some out
iandish, tongue twisting name, for he was
native African, but time out OF mind he
had boen known as Doctor Bob, healer of
tho rkuujorsa," aud the negroes far and
near regarded him with sentiment border.
ing on veneration. He was slave on old
Major Wheaton's place over in the next
county, but his master never hesitated to
allow him to lay down the hoe whenever
there came q summons from victim Of tho
"lmnjer.n
Indeed, Dr. Bob's fees were liberal on
act TO the loss OF his labor in the cotton
row, for between the major and doctor the
charges amounted TO iif,y dollars, more or
less, and whoever employed Doctor Bob
had the trouble OF hauling him and his
paraphernala back and forth. There was
not very much Of Doctor Bob, Is is true, but
TIERS was great deal Of the paraphernnlia'
Mawse Tom grumbled much at paying such
n price for humbuggcry and superstition,
especially us both he and Doctor Henly had
decided that Aunt Tempe's case was hope
less; but old Mls' and Mis- Mamie said that
they could not SEQ Aunt Tempe die with
any wish ungratihej. and little Nan, and
Roy and Susy. and even baby Tom, began
now to camor for Doctor Bob; therefore,
though Mawso Tom had often declared tha'
Doctor Bob should never sct loot on MS
plantation he was sent for
Had Doctor Bob refused TO come, tho ne
grocs OF Tom.ln-Luck would have felt them
selves doomed by wholesale to the powers
OF darkness; but Dootor Bob had ndvel
been known to refuse. 1t was, as the ne
groes say, "a half.hour by sum- when thu
ox.cart that had boon sent for him wa:
seen toiling up the hill beyond the peact
orchard, and, by Mawse Toms indulgence
the negroes stopped work and assembled Il
receive tho illustrious doctor-all excep
Unc Prlmus. Primus was mnuling rails II
the woods, and he went on mauling rails.
But he was not missed from the compan,
that crowded around the big gate, Us tn,
cart approached. Little Miss Nan and Ro,
and susy were mounted on tho topmost rec
bar, and Nom Rhody wns thoro with bab,
Tom In her arms; q score OF little plcka
ninnies swnrmcd over the fonce. rails, an.
lost their balance and tumbled into thu
sand, and picked themselves up again afrml
to cry. The older negroes formed line OF
each side Of tho way. bowing obsequiousl,
as tho cart passed through.
The cart was very full Of something--nI
doubt Of that, but Ut frat Doctor Bob di,
not mako much of Il chow. II was Christie
phor Columbus seated on the blackboard
J and shouting 10 the OK, that chiefly strucl
tho cye-"Chntopher Coumbas, swellin
wild his own insigniicancc, dat boy,n Mon
Rhody rnmaricd severely; for Nom RhodS
did not believe III forwnpluefs In youth.
However Chr s'ophcr, tolrh ho sai ex
alted, did not command tho eye for long
whom the cart halted In front OF the cabt
assigned TO Doctor Bob's exclusive use
there was seen In tho midst OF motley ar
ray Of squat nnd bullying jugs, adwarhst
ugure, clad in dlngy brown, aud crouchinG
with arms alsimbo, so that he was hardly tC
bo distinguished from the unoouth vessels
that surrounded him. save for the brigh
and scintilating black ewes illuminating. .hii