The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-03-25
OLD WoGGLEYE HISTORY.


Copyright. 1916. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
Old Woggleye iyed at the edge OF the
village and all alone kept he little
shanty, where, as long as anyone could
remember, he a cooked his meals and
slept.
They called hin Woggleye because he
had a curious nervous trouble with one
OF his eyes which made 1T move wheth-
Or he wanted 1t to or not, and when he
looked at you this eye would move In
the most disturbing manner.
Some OF the larger boys often tried
to plague the old ma by throwing
things at his shanty after 1t was dark
and he could not see who did 1t. and
they called him names and cried saucy
things to him. But he never answered
them and bore their taunts and abuse
without complaining.
The village was so small that scarcely
anything that happened In 1T was not
known to everybody, and when Ezra
Sampson was taken Ill with a disease
which the doctor said was very I'M
usual, so unusual that he & never
seen a case of 1t before, everybody in
the town knew about it before night
6all.
Ezra's father and mother were terri
bly, frightened because he was SO Ill,
and they were especially alarmed be-
cause the doctor said that he could not
toll how his illness was going to enc
Now Ezra had been one of the boys
who had done much to make the life
@6 old Woggleye uncomfortable.
Therefore Ezra's father and mother
were surprised on the night when Ezra
was most critically i'll to hear a knock
at the door and, on opening 1t, to find
old Woggleye standing outside.
MAY / come In" he asked; 81 have
heard that your boy Ezra is I'll with
. strange disease. The doctor told me
ss he passed my loo and 1 asked him If
might not come up and see him and
do what 1 could to help him"
Ezra father and old Woggleye went
upstairs to where Ezra lay on the bed
looking, OIL 30 white and Ill and so
weak that he could scarcely move his
hand.
The old man looked at him for &
moment. laid his hand softly on his
Forehead. touched his wrist lightly as
he felt his pulse. and then. turning to
Exra's father, he said: II think I can
save his life IL o are willing to trust
him in my hands"
Certainly we are wiling said Ez- |
Sa's father. The old man rummaged in
bis pocket and brought out three or
lour bottles. They were bottles such as |
Exra's father remembered having seen
IN old doctor have when he was a boy.
The old ma asked for hot water, and |
when 1t had been brought he dropped
liquid from two OF the bottles into one |
glass and from one OF the bottles into !
EZra's father, worn with his long |
watch. lay down In another room and |
old Woggleye sat by Ezra's bedside IN
pl morning. Hour by hour he gave
him the medicine he had prepared, and /
by hour he saw the alarminS
fynptoms of the Illness disappear. Just
before daybreak he saw Ezra drop
q quiet sleep, and Their he knew
h a the disease had been conquered.
that he YVES going to get well. II
was not until then that he went and
called Ezra's father.
Your boy Will set we'll" he said.
I b crisis has been safely passed, and
AL that he needs now is cars and nur-
sing to make him as well as ever. The
doctor will understand 1t all when he