The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-07-09

Abram, ever since he had the rebellious
fever five years ago next September, has
been possessed to doctor hisself all the time.
He's read all the doctors books he could
git holt of, and he never rests until he has
peroosed every week, all the advertise
ments of medicines in the Carr's Cross
Roads Gazette, and the Turkey Bridge
Chronikel.
And fust and last, he's had all the dis
eases that all them books and papers tell
about, and he's took medicine for all Of 'em,
and is still alive. But then the Bigbees
was always long lived tough family, and
no common kind of sickness ever took any
OF EN- off. 1t took something pritty pow
erful to fetch one Of 'em.
If Abram reads about Gordon's Bitters,
he has something the matter with his liver,
7cause them bitters is for setting your liver
in good running order-and if he's a-read-
ing about Peterkin's Kidney Pills, then he
has kidney complaint, and if he's a-reading
about Jenkins Sarsaparila, then his blood
ls Uub VI tuuc' ANU 81 Wlph the
medicines that's advertised.
He's pritty near died, lots of times, and
he's told me over and over agin how he
wanted to be laid out, and who he wanted
80 foler him furst after his family. Land
sake! Pve got so used to listening to it that
l don't notice nothing about it, and most
always 90 to sleep while he's giving direc-
tions.
Last spring Abram he got this ere appen-
dickticus craze. He would have it that
he'd got preserved cherry stone in his
appendices He could hear it grind he
said, every time he stepped.
l tried to pooh him out of the notion, but
he's an awful sot man by mater, and he sent
Tor young Doctor Squillsley, who's gradu-
ated, and had ruther carve a man up any
time than to eat his breakfast.
Squillsley he looked at Abram through
his blue eyeglasses, and said he couldn't
live week unless he had an Operation. "
he said he could vivsection him in the
twinklng Of a cats tail, and leave him Jest
as good as new, il not better.
But 4 BRAN he said, no, sir He said he
didn't mind taking barrel of medicine,
cause he was used to that, but he drawel
the line at being carved up alive. He
warnt a-gOing to be made into no two
Abram Bigbees for nobody
Josh, he's our oldest boy, and an awful
CIV 8 4 I.
persuade his pa to let Doctor SQuillsley 20
80 work.
~ could watch him do it," says Josh,
chen I could fix our Lige, and Tom Tripe,
and Tribby Jones, and all the other boys,
SOS they 4 never git no chenystones into
thcir insides. BY gosh, wouldn't they hol-
Ter, thought
But Abram was firm, and Doctor Squil-
,slcy had to give t up, but he warned Abram
that his blood would be on his own head.
lie left him some medicine, though, and
charged Two dollars for it, and it snelt Jest
like temperament essence, and I'll bet that
was all it was.
Abram is little narrer sighted, and one
day when he went for to take his medicine,
he got the wrong bottle out of the closet,
and drinked quite a dose out of bottle
that had libel on it marked "Arsenic"-
poison.
was upstairs picking over some rags that
was a-going TO hook rug out Of to carry
10 our cattle show fair in the fall, and |
heard Abram yell enough to split the world
IN two.
Lord massy I'm pisened I'm dead