340 WILD SPOETS m THE SOUTH. 



cut did the business. It took Mm just over the ear and 

 druv into the brain, and thar's his skin, now aint it a 

 beauty ? 



" Wall, the Doctor was in the house when we cum in 

 with the painter, and he was still holden on to his pistol. 

 He was just used up, and all my larfin at him, and all 

 Marthy's Schiedam Schnapps didn't cure him. He took 

 the fever and ague, and couldn't leave the house for a 

 week, and when he went he war so weak in the back 

 that he could hardly sit on his horse. 



" He stopped there purty often again that winter, goin* 

 and a comin', but ef we ever heard anything out doors 

 nights he would always coax me to go off and see what 

 it was, but he never left the house, and was purty sure 

 to lock the door when I was gone, to keep the varminta 

 from comin' m. That's the natur' of a doctor." 



