The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-07-19
one or, the Doctor.

latrer'S highest praise Tor his singing.
One ON the Doctor.
1t is not often one has an opportunity
to take in such good material for q prac-
teal joke as DIR. Dubois, unless it hap.
pens to be professional fakir or .
thimble rigger-to them the doctor is an
easy mark or used to be. But he got
caught the other day very neatly By
plain and matter OF fact fellow citizen in
great shape. 1t was the doctors busy
day. His friend dropped into HE Office
and asked him if he would not like q
little recreation-a drive into the country
for short distance. He demurred at
first, but succumbed to the allurements
of the tempter when he said he had in
him just to add-dignitv and respect
ability to the load. After a pleasant
ami entertaining chat of couple Of
hours they arrived at John Kinsella's
eight or ten miles out, when the joke had
grown too big for the other fellow to
keep all alone, so he told 1t to Kinsella-
and then it was that the doctor learned
for the first time how neatly he had been
taken in. The destination was southern
Pope county-forty miles out. The day
was hot, and at that time in the after
noon travel was lin the same direction
so there was no alternative but for the
genial doctor to walk home through
the broiling sun or continue. He kicked
OF course. That goes without saying,
but he accepted the inevitable and kept
on. On through Raymond, North Fork,
Bangor, Lake Johanna, Gilchrist-stop-
ping occasionally to water the horses
and get the kinks out OF their legs. The
son set in a sea of glory-but the doctor
was in no mood to see any beauty in
things either celestial or terrestrial. He
wanted to 60 home. Westward no! was
not his battle cry-not then. The big
round moon got up to attend to busi-
ness as usual, and still westward the
driver urged his team. And right here
it dawned upon the driver that he didn't
know where the particular Peter Peter.
sou he was looking for lived. He COM
menced to inquire the way of every man.
woman and child to be seen and they
were not numerous in that sparsely
settled country. An occasional house
with its inmates all sleeping the sleep Of |
of the just and the tired doomed upin the
moonlight, and in every case dreams
were broken into tor the purpose Of |
enquiring the way. After travelling q |
half dozen miles too far north and too
tar west, the weary ones were put upon
the right thoroughfare and arrived at |
midnight, hungry, sleepy, and the doctor |
lrate, hot in the collar and muttering |
and mumbling unspeakable plans OF re-
talliation and revenge. After a farm.
house meal of good bread and coffee, and
couple of :;ours of sweet and soothing |
slumber, the doctor, at the first streak |
ings of dawn, was urgently alert. He
wanted to go home, and to 60 quick. |
After the purposes of the visit had been !
accomplished, and rousing breakfast,
the return trip was made, the doctor
doing and muttering in his sleep. HE |
eyes and ears full of perspiration and
prairie soil, his throat parched and HE
gall boiling-he was not the pleasantest |
travelling companion imaginable. He
fretted most of all over the success Of the |
practical joke played upon him. He had
been kidnapped, been made victim Of
false pretense, had been torn away from |
home and family and patients and labor,
just because the other fellow didn't relish |
making such a long drive alone. He
wanted ompany-un willing perhaps.
but company.
But in the midst OF it all he devised q
wicked and diabolical scheme to break |
the force of his fall. No sooner did he |
arrive in Sank Centre than he commenced |
to anticipate the guying which be exc
pected and deserved, bv changing ends
OF the story, and telling how he had
played it on the other fellow. And he |
actually made some of the people he told
believe that he put up the job on the |
other fellow. He got half the people in |
town to ask the o. t. how he liked forced
trips by moonlight-how the roads are
i'll Pope county, what he thought Of the
crops in Gilchrist, how he liked the seen.
cry around Chippewa Falls, and Q score
ofother similar questions. But his friend
onlylaughs, and says nothing. He knows
the doctor feels sore and does not object
to his getting what satisfaction he can
out Of the practical joke which took the
best part Of two days to successfully
Eerpetrate.
The summer school.
What promises to be one Of the most