The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

I don't know what sh'd ever have done
IL DR.. Jordan hadn't happened to come
along Just then. Between us we got rap
up to the house and dressed his wound.
Then the doctor went back to the heid 10
get Pap's leg for he thought mebbe Pap'd
feel better if 1t was Strengthened out and
made comfortable. But he couldn't hnd
IT, 1t was nowheres around there. Pap's
leg. trousers and OIL had been shaved OH
smooth and clean a little above the knee,
but there wasn't a sign of the. remains.
The doctor reused the neighbors, and since
then they've hunted high and low, bur
from the time Pap left the Postoffice till
this minute nobody has ever caught sight
of his leg
CAS- Lucinda made this astounding as
sertion DR.. Jordan came in. Presently
the women emerged from the seeluslon or
the kitchen and seated themselves ON the
stiff4backed horsehair chairs ranged round
the sides of the front room. the COM
versa ton soon became general, and frora
the remarks let drop, 1t was apparent that
the fact that Pap Honeyman had been
deprived of one of hts legs was mere
A. B. C. in Importance when compared
/ with the perplexing problem OF what
had become of the severed member. Many
theories as to its mysterious disappear
ance were advanced with emphasis ana
even eioquence by their respective oppo-
nents ~
Its my opinion said one, that the
limb was ground into powder by the re-
volving wheels and that we couldn't tel
the particles from the surrounding graVei
and cinders.'
Nonsense growled Zap. Itd take a
train two miles long to make .po"oer Out
of all that
Several other explanations of mate
rialistic nature were put forth, but the
consensus of opinion was that supernetu-
raj agencies had been at work, ana tnat
Pans leg had been spirited away ana
buried somewhere to prevent the idle IN
.spection OF the morb'dly curious.
1--WE often heard of such things SAID
Lucinda Honeyman. They say 1t Is some
times revealed where the limbs have been
put, and then, again, they're never found.
II they're laid away crooked and In a
cramped position the patient suners dreao-
full
"Tf there's anything in that grunted
Pap. my leg must be tied in a double
bowknot. judgin' by the way this stump
hurts But don't take any stock in such
rot. I'm satisfied that the railroad COM
panv's holdin' ID as a keepsake, though
what they want with IL / don't know.
Mangled remains are no curiosity with
them. They haven't done anything but
smash things since the road first went
through here five years ago. Cows, dogs
and pigs without number has been crushed
beneath them wheels, and nobody ever got
damages But now that a human bein 8
been laid low, they'll be aaught 10 sing
different tune. Dumb animals amt con-
sidered Of much value in court. but leg $
different
''Pap's injury was only twelve days old,
and knew that In the natural order of
things several months must elapse before
he would be able TO wear an artificial leg,
but not wishing to lose any possible
chance for a sale, / managed to see the
Old gentleman for few minutes and stat
ed to him in delicate terms the nature OF
nv business and the superior make OF the
limbs / handled. Pap became Interested
at once
'Oh. pshaw,' he said, don't be squeam-
ish,' Just speak right up. You needn't be
afraid OF hurtin' my foelin's by referrin'
10 my fnfrmity. II the legs gone, it's
gone, that's all, and the only thing left
for me to do is to get a new one. IL you
can fit me out with a first-class arti-
Gle, something that viii last a lifetime, and
look like the real thing, I'd as lief patron
ize you as anybody l Amt got the money
TO pay for 1t now, and won't have till
get damages from the company, but when
they pay up I'll be ready to order as fine
a leg as was ever put on the market. and
I'll be willin' 70 pay good round price
for It, too
..The doctor came in then prepared 70
dress pap's leg and Kahn and babe him
good-by.
"It really Is strange what became OF
that leg 1 remarked as we drove away
Yes, said Ksin, 1T Is. And another
curious thing is that IL never bled drop
when the accident occurred. Doctors say
that this Is frequently the case. but II