The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-09

You know a first class croaker-er-
around here?" asked the nurse sud-
denly.
There's DR.. McIvor. on the next
corner below. this side of the street
I'm studying theory and practice with
hin after hours Hes Al, but not as
daring as Fletcher"
Half an hour later AcManus walked
into Dr.. McIvor's Office and laid down
s4.20 upon the table.
That's my pile Doc he announced.
Take It and write me out on a piece
OF paper fun directions how TO size up
when partys got appendiseedus. dead
sure thing or not, whichever the case
may be-
At quarter TO 5 DR.. Fletcher strolled
into the surgical ward jingling silver in
his pocket and humming a tune in a
very fiat key. In his pseudo cheerful.
loud voice he rallied the patients play
fully-miserable wreteheS who must per
! force seem visibly grateful for this gratis
sick room heartiness-thus performing the
part Of the 0enefactor who condescends
10 relax
Round the room he wert. stopping here
and there. pretending to be unaware OF a
certain bed. as cat viii sometimes cir
| Gle. counterfeiting ignorance Of a mouse
she has caught and laid, disabled. a little
out OF her reach. While on his round he
spoke word to an attendant who put on
a big white apron and went and busted
himself in : smaller adjoining room
At five minutes 10 the new nurse be-
| gan TO hover around Number Mines bed
AS the clock began 10 strike he had Just
i
| rangement of the bedclOtheS On the
stroke Number Mines hand closed, with
desperate grip OF terror around his
! friends primary digit Dr.. Parks strolled
| in imita ting as Car as his rather mean
| port would permit the benignent strut OF
| his superior. Finally. as the cat aban-
! dons comedy AND goes to its meat the
| senior physicians stroll eliminated a;
Number Mines bedside
And how does my title man feel2'' he
| lisped. with the painful sprightliness OF a
| stranger tG child talk.
! The nurses finger that the boy held
! seemed To be in a wise Number Mines
freckles grew dark against his incrcasins
| pallor. His eyes. the iriseS of which
were completely white encircled. stare
/ so fixedly at the distinguished vivisection.
/ list that that gentlernans spurious s,nil,
4 became almost real as he noted the mar
veIous resemblance Of Number Nine I,
one of the many rabbits ne had seen gaz,
thus up at him wired down to his dis
secting table.
I'VE Will take little man in the othei
room and make UNI well. So nice, Did
| dle-dy- dum-dy-dee! You bring him. h
added TO McManus. He seems to hav,
| taken q fancy to you
| Bob slipped one arm under Numbe
| Mines neck and the other under hi
knees. The bow gulped a. hard breath
probably 10 scream. but the nurse whis
pered to him:
Don't play off too far, kid. Bob I
bring you home when he gets TO the bat
Sh-sh. Easy, now"
The two doctors sauntered into tn
smaller room The nurse followed. carry
ing Number Nine.
The operating room was furnished viii
the rigor of a mOrgue or a New England
parTor In the center OF the tiled foo
stood an iron skeleton frame coucl
whence for better or worse. so many ha'
drifted from pain into the precariou
arms Of the su bile goddess an8sthesia
| The top OF this grim trsstls was sii0htl,
followed and lower at its foot wher
holes were pierced Immediately above
basin waiting significantly below. Tn
arrangement Of this simple device 70
I holding :he body while its life trickle,
/ through the holes was such MAT the oper
atee faced win dow and IL was his priv
I ilese TO fix his g;tze Can act sometimes
unopen to repeution) upon an invitin,
lawn, flower bedecked in season. wavini