The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-12

ley little beginnin In two days after it
started Jest like pimpel it develupd
into large adult boil which perjeckt-
ed from the back of our neck in the
shape of bunch half as big as hens
egg and the pain which accompanied IT
was simply ridicklus in the exstream
| We don't know that we have ever suf-
| ferd stitch anguish in our born DAYS than
we have from that one boil and ruthern
go thru stitch ordeal agin we ca1kilate
we would ruther have tiefoid fever or
small box or somethink immaterial like
that
| 1t paind US to stitch a extent that we
couldent turn our neck without lettin
out screecf1 of aeonv and it thunpd
and throbd so that we couldn't sleep
mites but walked about ~ miles up and
down the hall moanin and groanin and
s"fferink like a dawggawn marter,
At last in desperashion we cald in
Doc Livermore our huning speshialist
and horse dockter and YOU can he shure
that we must of been purity deeprit TO
rall Doc in on the case when we knowd
that Docs po1isv is allus to either kill or
cure and he don't seem to give boot
I which he does neither
Well. Doc took look at If and said
what that boil needed in order to git
relief from It was 70 he lanct Being
as we couldn't see the back of our ~ecl,
| land we never have saw II sinst we
was borned for that matter) we could
dent see whether our eddvtorinl hoI'
was reddv to be lanct or not so we had
to take Docs word for it & we told him
| to go ahead
| Well. Doc lie got out his CUTLERY
tools and pickd out big lance which
| lookd long enuff TO us TO stick pig
with and begin to whet it ur on the sole
of his boot prior 70 the operashion
Then when he got all reddv he got Us
into chair and stepd up hehint us and
| Iabd that lance into our neck about hah
a intch deep. hut Doc hanpend TO have
on his far sited srecks and couldn't see
verv well and porrammed if he diddent
miss that boil with the lance clear and
clean bv ahort two intches'
We give a veil which Sim Wilson
saws he heerd quarter of mile awav
whilst he was wedding in his garden
and then IN richus indignashion we
turnd on Doc and would Of booted him
outen the house il he haddent erabd
up his carvin tools and left in order to
save his worthless lifet
AS for the boil it peared TO hurt
worsen ever and the next dav our wife
volunteered 70 administer Sqno7ino to
| ~, al, II, i
she pinched that boil we thort 70 good
ness orr heart would stop beatin and
the pain was sitch thar the cold SWEET
of anguish stood out on our manly
brow and the tears glrshed from our
ewes and we moaned and prnaned so
that our wife give il up. After the
min had went we hepin 70 git mad
hecu7 orr wife had hurt us so and as
feard of her rs we are we had to keep
onr hands in orr nnckets to keep from
Sirikin her Little did our wife know
land she never will know rnless she
reads this which we hnoe she wonti
lest how near she missed griffin assalt
ed nv her husbands fist wl1itch worrid
of been the first tirne the worm fwho
IS onrself hegerativelv speakin ct
cnarsel has turnd sinst we married her
Well as we write these lines that boil
IS better and we hone that in few
davs the pain will have went fo that
bourne whenre no pain ever returns
We have n1oren nncf read IN the scr,n
te- about lob heinp nesfero nv hoiie and
accordin 70 the HOLY writ lob NOT oul,
hs one boil hut duzzens of EN- All we
haft to saw is that IL Lob had duz7ens
of boils as stated am catch one htIr'
him re mulch as nu-s did us he simply
coirldnf live thru II snd that one reason
wiv We are now o,o.' cal Skentika
about lohs hoils-instid If being like
the one We had thew must of been of Z
mild VARIETY