The herald., 1911-10-12
A PROFESSIONAL
VISIT
By A. TOMLINSON FORD
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1871.
By A. TOMLINSON FORD

Tom Murphy was a lusty lad not
| long from the Emerald Isle. He could
never see any work going on but he
must be in it. His fort was emergen-
cies. If a man needed to be dug out
| from under a pile Of bricks or earth
| Toms pick and shovel were always In
| the advance OF others. Did some one
tumble in a well Tom was the person
| to go down and rescue him. Indeed.
Tom was always about when an acct
| dent occurred and the principal man
in the salvage gang.
But great strength In one direction
is usually at the expense Of strength
in another. Let Tom get sick and he
was the veriest coward and whimperer
| in the land. At the slightest ailment
| he would take to his bed and groan
| and fret and wonder why the docto:
didn't come, keeping his mother and
| his little sister Nora waiting on him.
Then the moment the pain left him
| he was covered with shame at his IL
midity. He kicked off the cover, bound
ed out Of bed and seized upon any
method convenient or otherwise to
show those about him that he was, aft
er all, man.
One afternoon Tom was seized with
| a gripping. AS usual. he got into bed,
dispatched his younger brother for the
doctor and roared for restoratives. His
mother brought hot water, dipped
towel in 1t and clapped it on Toms
bare stomach. Tom howled with
pain. for the water was near the boil
ing point and took the skin of. His
mother ran to the water cooler with
another towel, soused it in and, run
ming back TO the bed, put 1T where she
had put the other one. a terrible chill
ran through the invalid. and the grip
ing increased fourfold.
IF the docther don't get here within
five minutes" he cried. II shall be a
dead man."
But before the five minutes were up
the pain suddenly left him. He sat up
in bed and looked about him.
Lille down." said his mother. THE
doctor is coming and If he finds you
able to sit up he will be very angry.
We've been hurrying him, telling him
that you were at deaths door,"
Tom lay back on his pillow and
covered himself up. Presently he
heard a commotion without and frag-
ments of sentences. "Holy mother.
he'll be drowned" Run quick"
whats the matterT" and such like
phrases. Jumping out Of bed. Tom ran
into another room where he could look
for half q mile down the road. There
was the doctors automobile rolled
down the bank beside the road till 1t
hung on the margin over the river.
The chauffeur was swimming. while
the doctor was holding the auto to
keep it from sliding into the water.
"Giye me me Clothes" cried Tom.
"Quick, the doctors auto will be lost!'
bad luck to you. Tom," said his
mother. "for an idyet. We've been
telyphonin' an sendin' for the docther
to save yer loife, an now yer goin'
to lift his automobile"
"Me clothes, me clothesw was all the
| lucy tCICiNCN- 1hNy bhoo6hs
them, and while he was putting them
on he cried:
Mora, go to bed"
what for" asked Nora.
$50 we can tell the docther that a
mistake was made"
By this time Tom had got into his
shirt, his trousers and his boots and
dashed down to where the doctor was
holding the auto. Tom grabbed it and
with the strength of a young bull
tugged at it until he got 1t to place
where it was safe from further injury
Then the doctor looked at him sur
prised.
81 thought you were dying" he said
EYER mistaken; it's Nora. Hurry
docther. She's got rumatiz and pneu
monia and stomach ache all at the
same time"
The doctor went on up to the house
leaving Tom to look after the auto
while the chauffeur went to dry him
self. AS soon as the physician reached
the house he was hurried into Nora:
room. pompous, opinionated old fel
low, he would not brook a suggestion
from any one. He felt Nora's puls'
and put his ear down to her heart
II think it's a bad cold. docther.
said her mother. II hope it won't turf
into newmoney."
"a cold be hangedw said the docto
savagely. "She's got no cold, but pal
pitation Of the heart. / must check !
or she'll die"
, Poor little Nora! She had been S,
/ excited over the recent events, espe
} cially the turn they had taken in he
: being the invalid instead Of her brother
that it is no wonder her heart bea
wildly. She did not know what ter
rible remedy the doctor would employ
( Its In me side, docther." she sal
l family. hoping to ward of any hear
) remedies
You need something warming" sal
| the medical man. Bring a redho
: poker"
, holy mother! Docther, are ye goir
to warrum me wild that?"
I'm going to null some liquor wit
It." said the doctor.
l But Nora was not convinced, and