Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-27
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Elizabeth, squeezing the BOY hand
In the interest she took
81 say don't You hurt. Here, cut
up some O that dacklum and warm It,
and stick 1t on. Then one on EN-
said he looked thrognh the keyhole
one day, and saw the doctor sharpen
ing his knife; and that set mother off
crying and she sets down on a door
step, and goes on till she made me
Wild; and the more she cried and said
she'd take me away the more they
danced about, and called me body
snatCher."
How awful! said Elizabeth hold
ing strip Of diachylon at the end Of
tho scissors to warm at the fire.
But ] got the old woman off at
last for twopencc, and soon as shea
gone | was coming home, ana | met
them four again, and they began at
me once more"
did they, thought2" said Elizabeth.
yes, and pitched into EN-; and 50
would any one, say Why it's
enough to make the old woman fetch
me away, ! say, LIZ, you don't want
me to go, do your
Indeed, but | do, sir"
mo you don't ! say, Liz, I'm so
precious hungry. Got anything to give
fellow"
mo You took out two slices OF
bread and dripping to eat AS you
went"
moi p,I,nJ
why you never went and give
them TO that old woman, did your"
"Ah, your mothers been dead ten
years said Bob sentontloualy
"S'pose ! did give 1t to her? 1t was
mine, and | wasn't obliged to eat IT,
was !? Thankye, thatll do"
Bob patted the plaster down on his
knuckIos, and had reached the kitchen
door, when Elizabeth of the smudgy
face called him by name, and. with
ms near an approach to a smile as she
could display, showed him a piece of
pudding on the cupboard shelf.
"And you said you Wanted me to
CO." said Boil. with his mouth full,
after busy pause; but lnow'd you
didn't mean 1t. say. Liz, is that big
gent with the rings and chains and
shiny hat going to marry Miss Rich?"
a don't know" said Elizabeth, sud
denly growing deeply Interested.
"Why?"
Because he's always coming to see
the doctor. and whenever let him In
he asks me whore Miss Rich u.s. and
gives me something"
Tort"
Yes, and he looks ut her So"
DO he, now? And what does Miss
Rich say?"
"Oh, she only talks to him about It's
being fine or rainy, and as If she
didn't want to stop in the room"
"Thon she u.s. said Elizabeth
trlumphantly.
lis? 1t what?"
Going to marry him That's the
proper way for lady to behave"
"OhI" said Boil shortly and
curious frown came over his conn-
tonanco, Il don't like him. some
how, wish one didn't want money
quite so bad"
Bob went upstairs, and the place
being empty he shut himself up In the
surgery, TO indulge IN morbid taste
for trying tlaVor or odur of everything
In the place, and fortunately so far
without fatal or even dangerous re-
suits.
After time he had ht and
prescribed for himself Syrup A,lrautil
SO much In cold water, leaving him
self in imagination In tho chair while
ho mixed the medicine, and going
back TO the chair to take It. After re-
covering from his imaginary Mt, he
spelled over number of the Lancet,
dwelling long over an account of an
operation of novel kind: and ending
by standing upon chair and carefully
noting the contents of the doctors
glass jars Of preparations, which he
turned round and round TIL he was
tired, and camo down, to finish the
morning by helping himself to about
a tcaspoOnf | ol Chlorate OF potash.
which he placed In his truuscrs-pocket.
not from any intention of taking It to
purity his blood, but to drop in
ninChos in the kitchen nre and startle
Elizabeth
Teach her not to say things ngen
my old woman" said Bob, Just as
II she can help being old"