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Show ilTJM ASID One of Biopllle's Most lisptck-tad lisptck-tad Citizens Suffers Agoolzlo Tercbares Front a Deailfy Cmg ii His Pant's PockeWt lap-eenel lap-eenel Tbis Way: Hoke Smiley of this place naderwem a ekaperience ef the moat karrowm na-chure na-chure laat wk. and aa a mult suffered each offul agony that he can never look upon the wart which he haa oa hia noee without feeling the moat horrible die-gnat die-gnat and loathing for what ha went through. For lo these many yra. now Hoke ha suffered from thia wart on hia note, and haa tried pretty nigh every method known to man aa you might aay to induce in-duce thia wart to quit and deciat from ita tabora but all to no avale. Tother day Hoke reed by hia almanack that s dedly drug known aa eulfurkk aaid waa a good loahion to apply in case of warta, on account of warta dieliking thia form of medeain. Aa eoon aa he read thia, Hoke set out and walked to the Co. aeat and bought aome aaid off en the drug man to put on hia wart to make it come off en hie noee. The aaid waa harmleee lookin stuff, Hoke aex, ao when he got it he atuck it in the hip pocket of hia panta, where he alwaya carriea bottles. Wa grecve to rute that the bottles which Hoke aome-timee aome-timee carriea in the hip pocket of hit panta often contane' licirer than not aa anyone can tell by emellin of Hoke's I breth. Well. Hoke got pert way home, andi Knit the tun wai turrible hot, he went' to act down on a bowlder cloet beside the road to reat up a mite He act kind ef bard, and the fuit thing he knew the bottle had butted. For a minute Hoke wan t much impressed by the burtin of the bottle, being as how be had forgot that the bottle contaned burinin said. Sudden snd like a thunderclap from the blue heavens, somethin begun to tell Hoke that the bottle had contained burn m asid. Intense paiaa begun to assail as-sail him, ucgin him forward with the utmost speed. Hoke aec that never has he cksperienced such exskwtsit angwish aa he experienced at that moment and subsekwently. Hoke was that impelled by hit pain snd disgust snd horror which he will never forgit until hia dying dy-ing day that be fled down the road with auch enormous speed that hia progress could acurcely be follered by the nakid eye, ao to apeak. Hoke aca that when he firat started to run there wan't nothing noth-ing in hia mind but the thought of mania ma-nia swsy from the awful and intense pain. While runnln, however, tha thought come to him, he sei, to eeek water and there lave his burain wounds, for auch they were by new as Hoke could dia-tinkly dia-tinkly tell by the feet So great was hia speed with which he passed down the road that Widder Henahaw who come out in front of her house to ace what was the matter seen nothin but a cloud of dust and concluded it was one of them pesky ottamabeele Evanchally Hoke come to Bog Brook, and irmnejiately he plunged into same with all speed. The cool water somewhat some-what sllayd the agoniiin pain, so that Hoke remained in the water for 2 bra Along toards sundown Hoke clum out of Bog Brook and limped home to total disgust with hia wart Doc Livermore mixed up a loahion to relesve his pain, and at thia writing Hoke is able to be around, although aot .ee spry as he might wiab. . |