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Show A II.-yrd Stokt. A Philadelphia paper stys : There is a doctor in the north-western part ot" this consolidated city who is especially remarkable for being, as the women term it, "short and crustv." A week or two since he was called to visit a patient who was laboring under a very severe attack of cheap whisky. '"Well, doctor, I'm got the tremendous tremend-ous delirium, you know !" 'Tremens, y iu lool ! Where'd you get your rum '!" "All over in spots; broke out promiscuously, pro-miscuously, doctor!" "Served you right." "Father died of the same disease; it took him under the short ribs and carri.-d him oft' bodily." ' Well, you've got to take something immediately." "You're a trump, cloc ! Here, wife, I'll take a nip of old rye." "Lie still, you blockhead ! Mrs B. if your husband should get worse before be-fore I n turn, give him a dose of that ( 'pink strap; may be that will fetch him to a sense of his folly " The doctor sailed nut grandly, and within an hour sailed in again, and found his friend of "tremendous de lirium" in a tetrible con.lilion, writhing writh-ing and struggling with pain. His wife, a female of the kind but ignorant ignor-ant school, came up. . and laying her hand on the doctor's arm, said : Doctor, I gave him the strap, as you directed." . ; . "Did you thrash him well?' "Thrash him ?'' exclaimed the as tonished woman. "o ! I put the strap into hash, and made him swal.ow it I ' "Oh, Lord, doctor!" roared the victiji, "I swallowed the leather, but, but-" "But what?" "I swallowed the whole strap, but I'm darned if I could go the iron buckle!" T he doctor administered two bread pills and evaporated. |