Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-28

81 sometimes 60 into a corner bar to
take drink, and one night met three
men there who claimed to have had
them. don't know what they took to
get shet of them. Seems like [ have
tried every concoction under the sun.
Joe isn't bit particular about his
Diet
"Joe?" interrupted Lampkin. ''Whom
do you mean?'
''That's my snakes name,'' ex-
planned the old man, raising mild
glance of surprise to the Doctor "You
see, I have daughter who keeps COM
pany with young man, and she didn t
want me to talk snake SO much before
him, SO I get to calling it Joe, to be
polite, you know. I don't see why
man can't talk about snake if he has
had one as long as I have''
DR.. Lampkin burst into an impulsive
laugh and then attempted to disguise
it by plunging Vat once into the case.
He reached up to a shelf and took down
q glass jar containing a snake i'll alco-
hol To hypnotic a patient he found it
necessary to first secure his entire con-
fidence.
''This, he began, "came from the
stomach of one of the wealthiest bank
ers in New York. I removed it without
the slightest difficulty
'Huh'' sneered the old man, his
tone containing tinge of pride. "Joe
can't be compared to that thing. He is
ten times as large. He'd have to be
CHARTERED or stretched out like rubber
gas tube to get through my throat. -
sit only seems larger to you because
it is inside of you," said the doctor,
foundering helplessly. Already he was
beginning to think he had come across
an unmanageable patient.
eff you are going to begin such rot
as that, shan't take a drop of your
medicine, - the old man blurted out. 81
ought to know more about it than you.
Have you ever seen my snake?"
mo-" replied the doctor, avoiding
the contemptuous gaze of his patient
"You've never felt of it either?''
"Of course not. -
"Well, don't talk to me about what
you are as ignorant of as a newborn
baby"
DR.. Lampkin opened his lips to speak,
remained silent.
The patient grasped the arms of the
chair and raised himself few inches.
''What sort of medicine are you 60
ing to give me? Joe thrives on every
thing in the way of physic. He seems
to look on it as q sort of dessert. l can
feel him wag his tail with satisfaction
when he gets a dose of medicine. I be-
lieve on my life if I was to take half a
pound of arsenic he'd reach up to the
root of my tongue to receive it. -
You must not talk SO much" said
Lampkin, red in the face and still con
fused. 81 shall not use physic. My
treatment is through what is known as
hypnotic suggestion.
"a new one on me, !" said the pa
tient. Il don't know as care to mon
key with it. 1t is something you fell
lows amt quite sure of and want to try
it on a dog, 1 suppose. -
Lampkin stared helplessly for fully a
minute. He looked at his watch and
shrugged his shoulders. He could not
remember ever having had such a per-
picking experience. He almost felt as
if the old man were testing with him,
and yet the idea was not tenable when
he met his mild glance and heard his
plaintive voice.
sit won't hurt you a bit,' began
Lampkin in tone of gentle persuasion.
"You see, I simply put you to sleep,
and when you awake''-Lampkin was
thinking of a reptile of more magnifi-