Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-02-28
HUNTING DR.. GREGG
BY CLARA INEz DEACON.

= he swung Indian clubs and life
10 weights. and down at his brother
n farm, where he passed most OF hi
b. Sundays, he did mere.
n He rose with the lark TO tram
e around In the dew and breath,
:, through his nose The rest OF the fam
ily growled about II, and the lark Du
him down as an eccentric lie felieC
: trees 10 get shoulder muscles, ant
4 as he wasn't particular as to whose
! trees they were, old Farmer Hobbs
: made him pay FIVE dollars each fol-
! them
j He lifted 50-pound stones over
? fences. climbed trees, ran up and down
hills, and did so many other things
that seemed curious to the farmers
around that the report got abroad that
he was little touched in the head.
All this wouldn't amount to shucks
had not an accident happened to Mr..
Gym one morning as he was jump
Ing fence. lie caught his toe on the
tou rail as he went over and fell In
such way that he broke the thumb
on his right hand This was on a
morning when he had risen with the
lark, and long before anybody else
was astir.
broken thumb needs more atten-
ton than broken neck. There must
be visit to the doctors and some
bandaging.
With a rag tied about the aching
thumb, Mr.. Godfrey Gym started off
down the highway at a fast walk. He
had made two-thirds OF the distance
when young lady came out OF
manor house just ahead of him and
took the highway. Her jaw Was tied
up with cloth, and she seemed in
hurry to get somewhere.
IT'S dollars to cents It's a case of
toothache," said Mr.. Gym to him
self. and the idea almost comforted
him
Mr.. Gym was right about the tooth
ache. Miss Hope Thornton was visit
ing married cousin at the manor
house. At midnight she was aroused /
by tooth trying to jump out of her
mouth, and thence to early morn she /
groaned and wept and vowed that I |
she lived thousand years she would !
never do any more wading In brooks.
1t was an hour after daybreak when
she woke her cousin to ask what could
be done
The jaw was bandaged up and Miss
Hope started out. She saw Mr. Gym
coming, and later on heard his foot
steps behind her.
Mr. Gym didn't mean TO overtake
the girl, as the pain OF hts thumb kept
him gritting his teeth. but somehow
Or other he presently found himself
keeping step with her and asking
"Toothache?"
yum"
"Bad?"
Awful
Going to Dr. Gregg's?'
Yum"
Then this must be the place, for
lere Is his sign"
They both turned in at the gate. and !
frosty-haired woman said:
The doctor amt in c
Where is he?"
out in the fields somewhere to kill t
rabbit for breakfast" '
I'll go find him. This young lady d
as bad case of toothache.'' Q
She can come in and wait, but he
'on't do anything. Early as it is, he's t
alf-tight." b
I'll try and sober him up b
Mr. Gym nodded to the girl to go
1 and wait, and after much peering
nd considerable tramping he got
ght Of the doctor with gun on his
boulder. al
"Patient?" queried the medical be
IAN q
Young lady with the toothache." to
Let her ache" In
Thumb" lii
Broken, Ell? Well. go to town" pi
Come on to the house" mi
Milky. Nothing doing today" To-
II hurt like everything, but Mr.. dr.
ynn managed to remove his coat tn
I'd dropped his hat on the grass. an
What's a-coming?" asked the doc ole
r.
You are. unless you want good
,king!"
nun. fou must nave iotS OF grit
fight with a broken thumb. Well, fat
me along" iro
Al the house. Miss Hope was weep ~
g and the doctors wife saying: oo ,'a
Shut up" exclaimed the doctor ~
he put his gun away N.
Young lady, open your mouth eru
III Bit of liberation, Keep this thL
uid in your mouth for awhile Feel ing
tier. eh?" boz
Yes" ing
Give you some to take home, Ache
gone by and by, Now, young man.
the broken thumb" v
Mr. Gym held il out to be looked wol
and operated on, and II was then Yo,
Il Miss Hope knew that he had ran
an hurt