The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-04-08
THE DOC CURED HIM.

lie looms mighty slCh All me, shiu 1
old man Sowerby. IAN there amt no de-
lyin' that he's got q good doctorin' out
IL. but he's got TO learn a heap an un-
earn heap afore he's qualified TO
.oetor a sick eat q mine. Not II
bought anythin' o. the cat" he added.
They say he brought Hi Patterson's
.oung ones through the measles. all
ight." observed Sol Baker.
They have come through it all right
without any of his help" said the Nestor
+ Hoop-P Pole Flat You couldn't kill |
Iry one o them young ones-they're too
blame ornary. It's an ornary outfit. |
( 1t wasn't they'd have paid up oil Doc !
durchison what they owed him, stead o |
-allin' in this fne-haired rooster with |
Iis little sugar pills. He'd have done !
or Wayne Satterlee. all right. but when |
here's any sickness around I'll want
ol' Doc Murchison."
What was Wayne Satterlee's trou-
ble?" asked Washington Hancock. II
never heard of him being sick
He had touch O. your complaint.
Wash" replied the old man. 1T never
got chronic with him like It has with
fou. The symptoms is a vi'lent dis
Ike to workin' Doc Murchison cured
Wayne"
I'm Jest restin." said Hancock. calm
ly. Tell us about Wayne's sickness
uncle"
"Nothin' much to tell" said old man
5owerby. Wayne was sorter born
tired but he gin'rally had some one be-
hind him with a sharp stick. First OF
all II was his old man. an then later
on it was his wife. She didn't hound
him: she wasn't that kind of a woman.
She used to tell him not to work so
hard an brag TO the neighbors what a
powerful hard worker he was. She be-
lieved Il. too. an somehow that KEEP
Wayne goin'.
Finally Wayne caught pneumony. an
he was a mighty sick man. Doc Muir
| Gibson was called in. an | tell you II
took oil doc all he knew TO pull him
through. Mis- Satterlee never lef' his
| bedside or got a nights rest for nigh
| on TO a month. Then he got better. an
| got so they could prop him up in bed
an give him chicken broth.
| HE took well 10 the chicken broth. an
| he lyin' in bed didn't seem TO disagree
/ with him. Once IN awhile his wife
would ask him IL he didn't feel as II he
| would like TO get up an walk around
a little. but he used TO say that he felt
sorter 'pindlin' an weak yet. Then
the oil woman got TO feedin' him up
with chicken billed an fried. an aigs
an milk puddin' an currant jam. until
be got as rollin' fat as a hog in mast
time But he was still weak. Finerly
oil doc came in an tol him that there
wasn't no reason why he couldn't git
up an move around the house for q
spell. an he did git up an mosey into
the kitchen an set there with his feet
in the oven smokin' his pipe. Then they
brung out rocker an set II in the shade
OF the ellum in the yard. an Wayne sci
there an smoked an slep' most OF the
time The farm sorter began to rur
down. an Mis- Satterlee had TO git oul
an look after the hired men.
doc had quit comm for some time
but one day he was drivin' past tn,
house an seen Wayne settln' out there
in the rocker under the ellum.
Hello. he says. 4 thought you wa!
up an around a month ago. What's III,
trouble here?
We'll says Wayne, L dunno ex
actly. | feel powerful weak all thu
time, doc
Lets see,' says doc. an h,
punches him around an looked at hi
| tongue an felt OF his pulse an asst hin
a heap OF questions. Finerly he says
What be you eating. Wayne?'
Chicken, mostly says Wayne
Chicken an little fixin's an such.
nothin' else
That's it. says the doc. It's tn
Diet. You're gittin' fatty degeneration
of the system, Wayne. an you won
last q year at this rate. | wonder tn
feathers amt sproutin' on your laigs b.
this time. I'm goin' TO fix you. You'v
got to go II on rye bread an water for
week an take exercise, jest the way
tell you
. What kind of exercise p says Wayne
you'll split a cord o. wood ever
mornin' an haf a cord every evenin
an take some other exercise in be
tween says doc. firmly. I'm goin' t
send Tom over to see that you take tn
prescription
We'll, he went into the house al
had a long talk with Mis- Satterlee, al
then came out again an drove hom'
He was back in an hour with Tor
Backus. his hired man. big. six-foo
two-fsted. husky feller, an they wake
WAYNE out to the woodpile an give hill
the ak an told him to start in. II
begged like good one. but doc wouldn
let up on him.
well, sir. they actooally KEEP Wayr
at that wood splittin' for hull weel
an that wasn't the worst. Tom mad
him trot behind him holdin' on TO tt
hack of the blackboard every afternoo
for three miles an back. First time
wouldn't go Tom tied him up an
had to. He tried to git Mis- Satterls
to take his part. but doc had fixed he
She used to stand in the door with tt
: tears streamin' down her face. while
sweat and swore, an tell him to bes
IL. for II was for his own good. an ST
made the finest rye bread for him tn.
YOU ever tasted. but she wouldn't 81,
In.
"Finerly Wayne seen he had TO tai
his medicine-an' he took 1t. In thi
week he run of all his fat an tougi
ened up an got an appetite like vol
When the week was up doc says
him: We'll. Wayne. do you reckon va
could relish plain vittles now?'
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