Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-01-28

dick continually fretted to be up and
doing, and so they decided TO meet afar
off DIR. Harry. who was expected 10 be-
returning from an all nights visit to a
distant patient.
They did not meet him coming, and
when they found him II was in desper-
ate plight indeed-lying insensible and
bleeding in the grass-fringed prairie
road. They understood the situation at
a glance-his horse, frightened perhaps
at blowing tumble-weed or the sudden
bursting of a jack-rabbit from a clump
of iron weeds, had unseated his master
and dragged him cruelty, and perhaps
kicked him, before his foot. which had
remained fastened in the strrup, had
been released.
They bore him tenderly TO the settle
ment, up the one short street and knocked
at the door beside which was display ed
the offensive sign.
Looks as if the new doctor painted it
himself" growled Ike Fosdick.
The young woman-now that they saw
her better the prominent citizens, knew
that she was very young, but just out of
her teens-opened the door.
Bring him right in" she said ,briskly.
They did so, and placed poor Harry on
the bed that the yong girl indicated.
She began to examine his wounded head
in prompt, business-like way.
ave want the new DOCTOR" said Ike
Fosdick, hastily.
81 am the new DOCTOR" answered the
girl, without turning her head. "Mother,
bring me q basin of water, please.
should like to have one of you gentlemen
remain and assist me. The rest will
please go. Your presence now would
hinder rather than aid me-"
Colonel Pride remained and the others
shufied out, so dumbfounded that, for the
moment, they hardly knew whether they
were on foot or horseback, as Ike Fos-
dick afterward expressed it.
"A girl doctor" snorted Fosdick, pres
emily. "Girls, us girls, is all right; but
rs doctors-wuh! I'm a-feared Harry is
in mighty poor hands"
The Others were of the same opinion,
but it seemed as if they had done the
best they could. They unused dejectedly
over the matter till Colonel Pride Joined
them an hour later, with the information
that Harry's right arm was shattered, his
head confused, and that in addition to
sundry abrasions there was possibility
that he had sustained internal injuries.
"Then he'll shore die!" growled Ike
Fosdick, impetuously. ats goodbye,
Harry, poor feller!
II do not know that" said Colonel
Pride. "The young lady seems to un-
derstand her business"
When the conference was ended the
others went their several ways wagging
their heads.
For week Harry's life hung in the
balance, and during that time the girl
lowered over him il seemed almost con-
stantly, and our friends voted unani-
mously that it was TO her constant and
untiring ministrations, more than to his
own constitution that young Harry owed
his life.
"Gentlemen," said Colonel Pride to
the other prominent citizens, one day
after the crisis was over, II have always
maintained that woman should not go
outside of her proper sphere in life; but
-er- Well, there wee tears in her
blue eyes when she set the shattered
bones in Harry's arm
This was not ut oil to the point, per-
haps, but his hearers did not call him to
account.
Yesterday" said Benson, slowly-he
was never much of talker-''when
sorto 50 'ntered over to see il l couldn't
be NV of some use, heered suthin' that
kinder set me to thinkin. / was tip
tom around the house as softly as /
could, an as passed the open winder l
heered the girl prayin' for Harry-jest u
homely, earnest prayer TO her dear Lord
for Harry's life. | dunno as it's what
you might call customary for doctor to
pray for patient, but, seq to myself,
'lfa doctor mixes prayer with medicine |
reckon the combination is hard to beat. F"
AN say, added Ike Fosdick, 'that
if girl wants TO be q doctor she's got
just as good right to as anybody
IL reckon she has" agreed Hank Fan
shaw.
AM" continued Benson, in his slow
way, "she kept on a-prayin kinder as if
she was tellin' her dear Lord all about it,
Harry must live; not only for all that it
meant TO him, but the much that it
meant to her, too. / s'pose she was that
tired and worn with watchn' that her
courage had kinder given out, an she
felt as if she must tell il oil to some one,
an it seemed, too, as if her dear Lord
was about her only friend. / Judged
times had gone pretty hard with her, an
that if she failed to make Twin start
here, it was oil up with her, so TO speak.
An she prayed on an on jest as if she
was telin' all her troubles TO a pityin'
friend, an then her head dropped for
ward on her hands as she knelt by a
chair, an'-an' then | come away"
Colonel Pride, never of a retiring dis
position, had, during the days that fol-
lowed the accident, made himself as fa-
miliar as possible with the antecedents
of the girl doctor. Her mother, slen-
der, unworldly woman, had been glad TO
pour the story into the sympathetic ears
of the colonel.
She was very proud, in q meek way, of
jean, and full of quiet faith in the girls
future. The past had been full Of stern
self-denial and brave struggling against
privation, but she felt sure that Jeans
triumph was not fur off. The little
widow and the fatherless girl had hoard
ed their savings long and we'll before
Jean could begin her course at the
medical college, and though mother and
daughter practised self-denial to pitt
full extent, their little savings were we'll
nigh exhausted ere the completion IF the
studies.
"And she worked. oh, so harl!" the
little mother said, with moistened eyes.