| Show A dose or what did she take I 1 I 1 BY T HOOD I 1 f ellen you on have bee been n out antl M I 1 well I 1 I 1 know I 1 have I 1 1 I 1 I 1 to the kings head ano no john no but no matter be I 1 troubled no more with my drinking i what do you mean 1 I mean what I 1 say john replied the 1 wife looking very serious and speaking very vary solemnly and slow and with a strong emphasis on every word you will be troubled no more with my drinking I 1 have took it at last 1 I knew exclaimed the wretched husband desperately tossing his arms aloft as when all is lost 1 I knew it and leaving one coat flap in the hands of his wife who i vainly attempted to detain him he rushed i I 1 I 1 from the room sprang down three stairs at I 1 a time and without his hat or stick dashed out of the street door sweeping cepi ng from the i step two ragged little girls girl a quarter q arter loaf a basin of treacle and a baby ba y but bat he never stopped to see if the children were hurt or to see if the infant dripped with gore or molasses away he ran like a rabid dog straight forward down the street heedless I 1 alike of potters load basket and butcher tray do 0 that again growled a placard man as he recovered the pole and board which i had been knocked from his shoulder mind where youre going goine 11 bawled a hawker as he picked up lifs his scattered iott ered wares while a dandy suddenly enli thrust into a kennel launched after the runner one of those verbal missives which are said to return like the boomerang to those who launched them but no on scampered the teetotaler heedless of all impediments on he scoured like i he cammilla Oam milla to the shop number with ahe red blue and green bottles in the winlow the chemist and druggist into which ie started up to the little bald man at the lesk with bare breath to gasp out oat i imy my wife poison pump vegetable or mineral inquired the sur pon pon apothecary with the utmost probes ional coolness both all sorts laudanum lan danum arsenic arsenic ox ilic acid corrosive sublimity and the tee caller if was about to add pine apple rum bong the poisons when the doctor stop pd ed him I 1 no but remembering the symptoms over ight the teetotaller taller ventured to say on the bength of his dream that she had turned ill A sorts of colors like a rainbow and swell bg almost as big as aa a house there is not a moment to loose 12 said boula and accordingly clapped on his tot and arming arm mig himself with the necessary apparatus ipp aratus a sort of syringe with very long iong trunk trank he set of on a trot gui g u i led aed by the teetotaller taller to the rash 1 1 1 tod ind ill fated bacchanalian bacha mrs burrage Bur rame now when the teetotaller taller with the medial man at his heels arrived at his own house irs rs burrage barrage was still in her bed room chich was a great convenience for before he could account for the strangers indru ion nay even without knowing how it ras done she found herself seated in her aay chair and when she attempted to ex lost st she found herself choking with he be tube of something which was certainly either maccaroni nor liquor ice nor yet ep to account for this precipitancy the ex gge rated rep representation y esen tation of her husband oust be borne in in mind and if his wife did biot t exhibit all the dolphin quite so blue E een yellow or black as he had bad painted her e apothecary made sure she soon would le e and consequently went to work without MIX balay W when hen delays were so dangerous t mrs burrage however was not a woman 0 o submit quietly to 10 so disagreeable an p e ration oration against her own consent so with v vigorous i dorous kick and push at the same time he 1 contrived to rid herself of the doctor and i is s instrument and indignantly demanded ft know the meaning of the assault upon er it is to save your life your precious jfe ife ellen said the teetotaller taller very seri seri busly it is to empty the stomach maam 3 11 said eaid the doctor empty a fiddle retorted mrs B who wold have added a astick tick 9 but the doctor watching C his opportunity opportunity had dexterously P popped aped the ta tube e again in her mouth not without a fresh scuffle from the patient for the lords sake ellen continued the husband confining her hand do do pray do sit quiet pon wod wobble said ellen hub hub bub hub bub bubble atte attempting tm g in vain to speak with another pipe lim in lter her mouth besides her wind pipe I 1 have the goodness maam to be composed 11 implored the doctor I 1 1 I wont 11 1 1 shouted mrs burrage barrage having again relea released sed herself from the ins instrument t aument by a desperate struggle what am I 1 to be 1 I pum pumped e d out for lor cc 0 ellen en you what have you taken corrosive salts and narcotics put in the doctor arsenic and corrosive sublimity said the teetotaller taller oxalic acid and tincture of opium added the doctor fly water and laurel water said mrs burrage barrage I 1 vitriol prussic acid and aqua fortis I 1 11 I 1 continued the druggist I 1 1 I have taken no such thing said the I 1 refractory patient 0 ellen El lenyou you know what you said well what I 1 N that youre drinking should never trouble me any more and nomore no more shall it screamed the willful woman falling as she spoke into 1 convulsive paroxysms of the wildest laughter alno no more shall it for ive took il I 1 what maam pray what in the naine of heaven what ll 11 why cowhy then pw ive took the |
