Hutchinson gazette., 1900-06-21
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IN THE HOSPITAL, }

In the little country hospital the
young nurses were very good andnot
been in the business long enough TO
have grown calous. They were nice
girls, mostly in their trst years
course, and their lips would twitch
and their faces whllen very often In
lne operating room, or when they
held patients hand while he died
IN the night But they were brave
and Went about the pretty hospital
/ singing softly in the cool corridors,
carrying little white-clothed trays
10 the sick rooms, and being the best
Of medicines themselves by reason OF
their neutness, their bright eyes and
Gheh kind voices,
Now, one beautiful bright spring
afternoon, at the railroad junction
in the town, two trains, filed Win
| pleasure seekers, smashed tOgpNer
aud the doctors and the mNtron and
the nurses were plunged into u world
OF work, for ambulance after umbu-
lance cane driving up from the scene
of the accident aud left TO the care
OF the girls many people sorely hurt
And among them was II very Nltle
boy, about six years old, wnom no-
body knew anything about, beeNus
his father and mother were both Nll
ed IN the collision, and there was
nothing on them toshow who orwhat
they were, except thutthey were very
poor, 1t Is comprehensive that II
very great deal OF Uitentl0n was paid
10 this little fellow, and he would
have been placed in the woman's
ward ns the hospital was too small
for childrens ward, but the
woman's ward was full, So the boy,
quite insensibe, was laid on Il cot in
the mems ward, and nest TO him was
laid big, brown-he0rded man, also
unknown, and evidence to show that
he had gathered quite sum of mon
ey and whose few papers went to
snow he had been sailor, He was
a very rough lolang man, indeed,
The man came TO his senses first,
and it was night, The nurse on watch
was quitc frightened at the man, lie
was IN pain, and great allowance
must be nude for that, but never, in
all her lite, had the little nurse To
listen TO such words us came from
the big, hrown-beardcd mans lips.
He wanted to get up and go rigAt
away, but he found he could not move
his great massive legs, So he begun
TO abuse his fate, and the railway ana
the hospital and the nurses and man.
kind in general, lie was u. very Bit
, ter muuthcd man, indeed, The little
nurse, by the light OF the night lamp,
= did her best 30 aOothe him, because
, he reused other patients, ana there
was terrible grooming and wai!Ing
I in the small ward. And all AZ once
the little boy came to Ills senses, too,
, just for u minute, and his face was
, furned to the sailors face, and his
eyes fell upon the sailors eyes lie
I was not quite sensible yet, for II
seemed he mistook the sailor for his
), dead papa, and he said very prettily;
| "Good-morning, dad. How are you
10 this morning."
! The sailor, looking into the little
! fellows eyes, was abashed and stop
/. ped his swearing, and was silent for
u moment, and then muttered clum
silly:
Pm all right"
"That's nice said the boy, and be
came unconscious again,
y The sailor did not abuse anything
y any more just then, but lay grooming
. and every now and again when the
;, little nurse slipped by in the shadows
! he called to her softly, and the frs
:, time he said:
\ "Pretty little chap"
- The nurse nodded and smiled, ant
7 the sailor smiled back and, unit
:, morning came at last he only gronn
ed and watched the child, and die
a not curse at all, but every time The
nurse came to wipe his brow or give
him a drink, he hispercd to her tt
c look at the boy.
s pretty boy-he thought ] was hi
\ dad" he said, and would have laugh
u ed, only his pain made him groOn in
stead, Again he caught the nurses
Z hand.
Il "Said it was nice, he did. Cute
:, amt hep and then his face twisted
Il in pain.
o But neither could the sailor ris,
y from his back, and neither could tht
sailor hope to sail the sen again, fol
/ he was in the same case with the shilC
u and both were slowly dying, At frs
IS sometimes the biz brown man wouIC
- forget himself ais pain, a'3 9,
nurses would shut their ears, terri
Il fed, and the matron would threateI
e to move him to a room by himself
i' and that frightened him to silence
u for ever since the accident he had {
T. great love for the child, The chilt
o would look at his huge friend in sur
u prise when he fell into one Of hi
e RACES and say:
i "Oh! John, that's not nice"
II And John would bite his lips a
once and he patient. Then the chilt
e would say:
"How do you feel, John?"
And the sailor would answer:
~ First rate, Joe"
"That's nice" lAttle doc wou,u ) y
Y and they would lie quiet and look sou
% of the window at the river and be
Y yond where the big hills purpled tt
u the skies, and were always looking
y up.
e So it was in the mornings, whel