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Show COBLEICM'S AUNT. A 1'LKASANT LADY AT A DINEti TABLE. Mr. Cobleiyh'a aunt from Cornwall cnniQ to see him Friday. Sho ia a nice old lady, and Cobleih was glad to see her when bo wont homo at noon. When they sat down to dinner and Cobleiyh had plentifully helped bor to lood, she peered over tho lop of her glasses at him a moment and then observed, with some anxiety: ''Ain't you well, Joaeph '!" "Oh, yes, aunty quite woll. Why?" "X thought yon looked kinder yaller minor uie onu oaoiiuhou, luu- tinning her gaze as if in doubt whether to believe his impressions or her experience. expe-rience. "You must bo keorful of yourself, forthere's a heap of sickness all about. Haven't you any salts in the house?" "Yes, there's a paper of thein in the pantry," explained Mrs. Cobleiyh. "Well, he ought to take ft little ol them every moruin' ; about a teapoon-ful teapoon-ful before breakfast. I'm euro bo's billions, an' there's nothing bettcr'n salts lor billiousucss. They won't do. him any barm, anyway, an' they keep his blood cool, an' so keep oil fever. Wo'vo never been witheiU salts in tho houso lor forty years, and hind only knows how much doctor's bills they've saved us. 1 don't bolievo in doctors nohow. They pretend to know ovcrything, but I can tell theiu aomo tilings about biolinoM Uiey dun't know. They're gix-d in -oineraMW I'll allow, but if people wuuld only lake earn of theiunttlvod an' gu to dosill hm HiMin iw Ihey onimeneo to feel (ilil of killer, they'd he fewer duelors, I warrant war-rant ye. Hut coi no folks urn like Btii ks, They never keep anything on hand, and when they are taken down oil post h;iM(e tor a doctor, an' out goes live dollars, ten dollars, on' noinelinu'.s lilty mid a hundred dollars, when ten eentV worth of milts or a little rhiib.uh would havo niiMwen-d llio hull purpii. I haint got uu pati-enoe pati-enoe with hin h pi oph-, an' 1 never did have. Ml lake another pert tty, Joseph." "Vou know 1'rei'illA Aine., Harney Har-ney Anion' Miiter die was down with a lever in Kr huary. They had two dootorrt, but they could n't do anything to hi lp her. 1 hen they sent over fur ine. Sue was an awttiMouking sjioc-Ucle. sjioc-Ucle. Iltr bilios weomed to puoh riKnl through tier skin, and the caif ot her log could l-o rpannoil by 111)' oiiL-i'i iniii vmiiiio. i ueer uoi-u auj one Ii II away an ln) wiw. Slie was a di i"tl In I-looking i ihjeel, I can toll vim. Why, oven her lhio.il wan full ol ol hl-lle hl-lle iitlrtM tiotl kepi a hn-akiug all i M r. L' ihlrigli was ju-t on the point I of sv all.jWllig il pn i'o of Ciibhiige, but I he had U hold tun tnouth tiglit hluit I and i;ut u uii meiit before ho could do it.; "1 ,-i.od what wits to be done must he dum at ciuv, an' I went at it. 1 gave her a g big do-oof bloM-nil, bloM-nil, and put luu.-tanl drafts Oh tier U ot and a large olio r ii her lurk. In le-.t ll.an two hu.iis ciie bt-gan 10 fe.-l b tier. 11 ii t oii o'lht to have bo. n hr r bai k win n that planter can if oil U'liy, it was juot as raw ici a pieCO ol hi .'l, and there, WiW a lot of valiow " Mr. ('ohloigh w.is aUnil helping . hinwli U a pu-co of the omel.-lto at tins juncture, but su.l h-i.!y dr.ii'pnl it "-lull nil " "ll.'n'e L'lu'lc John ttiiu .ilmy V" hiiddi nly iin jui ret 1 M r. lih ih, with a I:arig honng in hw thro.it. " ny d.'ln'l lie come with you?'1 "(, he iiupto Ins ears in f.orin Work, and he is Bhorl-h.uid.-d one man, which makes it u:i!"orl'::i.itc jii-t now." "U :.v, win re's tho man," in-ipiind in-ipiind Mr. (.VvhUi,;!!, Willi a done ol anility which Wa- d rtainiy r- mark-al'ie mark-al'ie in View nf the tact that he did u- know the nii-eing j iriv; in fa t, 'nul never h'-md ut him 1 1-lore. "O, hos duii on h;i ba k- witii a lovt r re on his knee, rep.;, -J the aunt. I '-OV g--P -r. Cbleigli, Biid-' Biid-' di n ij p U'.n.g back a uio'iihfol oi me ii he .n ii-t iifliiir, and turning white aUc.it the ni'.'ilii, " V he has ii-eu -;,-k two wui k' with it , ' ' adth-1 the ifint, r- Rimini; her .va. :ly. "La-t J' r: lay the d C-tor C-tor lan. i-d it, and y. u ouii t to have -on 1,.1'ft.ill' that oarue out ot it. liu ro w.i. a jiail Morcv '." Mr. (Abkigh ha.1 h.:k-d m pre-c;i;latr'v pre-c;i;latr'v away fn m the Uibieasl.i np-' t a f.i.ur. "Why, y u ain't g,.iu', Jo.. " r-hc C.i llJ.ll'tl. "1 in afraid I nn:.-t. I have got a p u!y ( i met, Wh rn I forgot ail atviul '.ill juat tiiu nn ti-lie," he ex- iaui'l, lipuig il.iwii t 'IIH thing in om throat to mate room lur a giuL-lly r-mile." t "I do Whove Jicph is biiimu," ri-umed ttie o!d lady uft-.-r his do parture. "He ain't t-;oii hardly anything an' U'!t hLs piato fud. I i.t po you'U rcnicm! "T lo give him tntm sails, Ann Kii.-.. T.u-y'il lot cii him around all right." And tne old lady, nvadjuting he- gi.Ls, r-turinil to li'T dinner. |
