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WILD SPORTS IN THE SOUTH. 



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

 painter, and he was still holdin' 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 agee 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 agin 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 varmints from comin' in. That 's the natur' of a doctor." 



