San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-31
A CHAPTER ON LYMPH.
Globe Democrat.

OdlOh SoonSy
attended. The wonderful acquire
mepts of Mickey Finn as scholar
had been talked about so freely that
the kitchen was scarcely able to hold
all who came. Mrs. Crosby persuad-
ed her neighbours daughter to take
care of the baby, so that she might
eniov the pleasure of listening TO some
of the pearIs of wisdom which drop
mad from the scholars lips: Paddy
EIsncv forsook the saloon for the sal
on. Mrs. O'Brien brought her patch
work: Jack Brady was present with
hIs bull dog: Mary Costello sat near
the stove, and cast shy Chances at lit
tie Mike. In fact all the chairs were
occupied, and the cover of the wooden
coal box cracked under the weight OF
listeners. The subject for discussion
was the outcome of q current topic,
which happened in this instance to be,
the discovery by DIR. Koch, of Berlin,
of an alleged cure for consumption.
"I do be hearin' thin say in the
quarry that DoOtchman has invlnt.
ed a cure for dis'ase," said Mike
Welsh from a cloud of tobacco smoke,
land there'll be no more funerals. Is
that thrue, Mickey"
$50 do be readin' in the Ponck-
hockie BIather," replied the boy, rs.
suming the attitude of professor at
clinic. "They call it the limp"
"And how much is it bottle?"
said Mrs. McFadden, who had o
slight cough. :,
HAh. We can't buy it. They give it
away" replied little Mike.
"Give it awsy!" the whole company
exclaimed in chorus. "And where
can yer get it?"
"Arrah, yell have to go to the
Dootchman' g house to get it, and then
he won't give 1t to We until he pounds
Oh yer chist and listen till he sees If
we're breathin' quare like q wind
broken horse"
"Fwhat's his name?" inquired Judy
Flanagan.
"Mr. Cotch," replied Mickey.
"And fwhat's he like?"
"Well, never seen him, but they
say he's little ould man, wild gal
ways and chin whiskers, and he tries
all his invinshuns on his dog, which
the same he has for that purpose in
toireIy. IF it kills the dog he throws
it away, but if the dog can sthand 1t,
begorra he says it's good enough for
min and women and Children"
"Do he take it wild spoon or how?"
asked Mrs. O'Brien, anxiously.
MOI said the youthful chemist,
gravely, ye take it wild squirt
gum"
This remark excited howl of de-
rision. Even the bull dog growled.
"Yez can laugh" said Mickey in
nettled tone, "but it's jist as thrue as
the squint in your eye, Mike Walsh,
and you're lookin' both ways for
Sunda'. Faith if yez won't believe
me I'll not tell We any more about it
atall, atall."
Little Mike lapsed into silence, but
by means of soothing language and
gestures, the company persuaded
him to resume his talk.
"Well,n he said, ''ye mustn't know
that the DOCTORS say that there's
wurrums in everything that's alive,
and some things that are not alive.
If ye were to be takin' a dhrop o.
water and lookin at it wild tillscope,
fwhat wu'd ye see but Thousands and
Thousands o. weeny wurrums SWIM
min around and atm aich other like
cannibals atm min. Well, wan day,
whin Doctor Cotch was afther atm
his sour cabbidge and drinKin' his
beer, he was sittin' before the
fire thinkln'-fwhat digna-
cious man he was altogeth-
Grand says he to himself,
says he. 'Begorra, I'll invint a cure
for dis'ase,' says he, 'and thero'll be
no more sale for Yankee patent med
icines., SAYS he. And wild that he in
yinted the limp. Shure no one knows
how he med the invintion, for he was
not like you, Jack Brady. Win he
had a good thing he knew enough 70
kane a sthill tongue in his head, and
his mouth shut like a Jail gate. Bul
he didn't moind tellin' the Other
Dootch docthers that the saycret was
nothin, but hungry wurrums he In
vinted an put in a bottle; but, all thu
same. he was too foxy to be tellin
how he med the wurrums. Well
when he had four bottles full he trieo
the new inyintion on the dog, an th'
dog, from bein' thin and wake, got 81
fat that We c'ud hear the skin stretch
in' on his back like q fiddle stirring
DIR. Coich wuz that PLACED wild him
self that he jumped up in the air, an
cracked his heels together twice"
"How about the squirt gum" In
| ouired Jack Brady.
"I,m comm to that, il you'll b.
aisy and give me Time" replies
| Mickey.
"Whin DIR. Cotch had the invintiol
irwin ted and corked up in bottles
wild nitrogiycerane to feed on, h
says to himself, says he, Begorra,
mustn't go down to Flapnigan's black