The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-14
OLD CRADLES HAD APHAsIA
A Demonstration In Nervoas Pathology
That Cost as.So

limped around in the Teton Basin
for years on a muscle tied foot, at
last wearied of the wabbly exertion
and went down to Salt Lake to have
the defective member treated. He
came back after an absence of a
month, and his neighbOrs gathered
about him to hear the strange tales
which he would have to tell of ex-
perience in a great city. He describ-
ed the temple and the tabernacle
and the Dooley building and quite
enchanted them.
What was the finest thing you
sect" finally asked 81 Redee, in re-
capitulation.
well, men," said Hardy, 1.-THE
best-reely the best-thing ] see was
feller in the hospital He in
trusted me lot an Iheerd all about
him. He had aphasia. speaking
the last word with a proud delibera-
ton. Redee looked at Watts, and
Watts glared intently at RED Pete
Ruble. The last mentioned broke
the spell.
What's thatf A form country,
amt iii Seems heerd of il afore
in ioggify."
Nav" said Hardy scornfully.
at ain I place-it' : a thing. Some
thin out of gear, you know"
But they did not know. They
were even worse COMPOUNDED than
before.
Like Russian thistle, mebbe,
said Pete dubiously, still clinging
to the geographical theory.
"No such. A man fergits how to
talk or somethin."
"Deef an dumb mani / seem
Nav. Nav. Marthat kin talk
jis' fereits how, fergits everything.
1T can't be did" declared Pete
with decision.
Hardy looked at him pityingly.
Dog it all, say it kin. l seen il.
Here-I'll show you. Who's got a
s1O notear
Among them they got together
IS. 40, and Hardy said that be could
illustrate to some extent perhaps
with that amount.
Now" he said, taking posses
sion of the money, "you all know
that you give me this money. don't
youf" They did and said so.
We'll, rolling his eyes and as
suming a rigid attitude. I've fer
got it, fergot all about IL. That's
aphasia."
"Humphr" grunted Ruble. Seems
q fool of a thing, don't iti Gimme
my s2.4O."
Hardy gazed at him in a stony,
vacant way.
Gimme my s2. 40, Ruble repeat.
ed, with some show of sternness.
"I-I-seems like / heerd some
thin about a sum of money some
whar," Hardy responded in a hest
tating way.
There's e1.5O comm to me-" Re
dee uttered fiercely.
Gents, said Hardy sorrowfuIly,
II can't remember il. I'm sorry. /
don't know what you're taIkin
about I've got that there aphasia. "
They gathered about him, clam
oring for their funds. They now be
gan to understand, but they could
not convince hiLn-
I'm sorry, as ] say. gents" Har-
dy said meekly. But it's scientifick.
II amt my fault. On the subject OF
any money you might "a give me-
an mebbe you did give me some
p'raps-my mind is like a blank
sheet OF paper. I am a poor victim |
of peculiar disorder. as you
might say. Good day"
He was a man of feet 4 inches,
and. although along in years, he
he'd been the hardest and best fight
er in the Basin. even in his crippled /
time. They looked at him gloOmily,
therefore. as he walked away, and |
no man dared say him nay. Only |
Red Pete Ruble expressed the gen.
eral sentiment when he made GER
tain feeling and torrid remarks
which impaired to the world at large
the fact that he was utterly disgust
ed with science in all its forms.
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