The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-14
The Globes Daily Short Story

come at last, and he wanted no interior
ence.
exac wha to TO do A 2s sh hs opened dn Sy
tents.
A wonderful and awesome collection IL
| was. There were splints and bandages
| and ligatures, and tourniquets and mystic
| rious looking instruments that Sammy had
picked up at second hand shops-for he
had been spending his savings for years
in this form of collecting" Altogether
he had enough one would have thought,
to fit out a small Surgical Aid society.
sisting Mr. Curtis He turned him this
way and that, on his face and on his
back, looking very grave and wise, the
all his movements. anxious and mystiied,
yet with touching. confidence in Sam
mys well-known aptitude for First Aid'
tbs up so that very little could be seen
of him; then he glanced round for bear
ers'' to carry his patient" to the hos
pital, about half a mile away. By this
time four or five porters had come across
from the neighbOring station. bringing
a stretcher with them, and. among them.
three youngsters who. had been under
Sammy in one Of his instruction classes.
Reckoning to them, he babe them range
themselves according to the rules Of am
bulance drill They knew the proper. rou-
while Sammy holding his book in his
hand behind him, handy for surreptitious
peeps In case he should, in his excitement.
forget the exact words of command. gave
out his order like a drill sergeant.
Fall in!'
Ready
"Lift!"
"March!"
And the procession started.
little later the senior surgeon at the
hospital was examining with much sur
prise and some perplexity, a rolled-up
bundle that had been brought into the
accident ward, said to be man who had
been run over on the railway, but that
quite as much resembied a mummy from
an Egyptian tomb. Round him stood
number Of students, all looking on--for the
surgeon had been lecturing when the "ac-
ed away at once, the "class" following at
his heels. Sammy stood by, smiling and
Him" said the surgeon, "splints on
right arm"
Broken" murmured Sammy.
"Tourniquet on left arm
ITO check loss Of blood" Sammy inter-
"H'm Splints and bandages on legs"
fractured th1gh-broken knee-cap,"
soto voice from Sammy.
Jaw bandaged. I scarcely understand
this. Looks like gag
Patient was excited SIR Sammy ex-
planned; Was light-headed, | think. sir
ed that Mr.. Curtis had revived, and had
protested against the proceedings.
He protested again-and still more
bandages from his face, and so allowed
him to speak.
You great, idiot" he shouted to Sam
assault and-and- kidnapping and-false
Notwithstanding to a breach
Of the peace-that's what it is! Yes. and
m have try at the lot Of you folItor-
something. Let me go Undo these things!
I tell you there's nothing the matter with
me: Undo the things and let me get up
O on q n6
blethering old idiot over there. There's
nothing the matter with me- tell your
en and SO sn nv time He to hf fay re ae
well known to railway men, of falling be-
meath it in the hollow between the two
rails But he had knocked his head
stunned HIM for few minues, and IN
that time Sammy had swooped upon him
so he said-"like a hawk on spar
row." and skewered him up like truss
ed turkey"
The surgeon hardly crediting his state
ments, removed the various wraps with
to Curtis-exasperatfng deliberation, eX-
did So Finally he pronounced the patient
to have sustained no hurt of any kind.
''Of course not!" exclaimed Mr.. Curtis,
contemptuously, as he got up. amid the
laughter of the students. Now good day.
gentlemen. Let me at that meddlinS old
fooli'
But Sammy was already out of sight
and had left no trail behind. In his haste
he had incontinently abandoned all the
ambulance appliances it had taken him so
many years to get together, and he never
even came back to claim them; nor did
he haunt the railway any more. Whether
he was satisfied with his one actual ex-
perience Of an accident" or feared the
ridicule of the railway men, or was afraid
of meeting the 1rate Mr.. Curtis. is not
known. He left the neighborhood and dis
appeared.
Thenceforth Mr.. jeremiah Curtis gave
up his practice Of punning at every pos
sible opportunity; thus. even In this case,
his enforced visit to a hospital was not
without Its INFLUENCE for good. both for
himself and his fellow creatures.-Phila-