1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
3i5 
was every word he said, but 1 kuew him 
so well that I felt satisfied and easy in 
my mind, and I was certain that the 
Ellsworth sisters were going to be 
cured. 
"Dr. Norton told me so much about 
that visit, and the sisters told so much, 
too, that I know what happened most 
as well as if I'd been there. 
"He went in and began to talk about 
their symptoms, and he asked lots and 
lots of questions. Pauline had sick 
headaches, most every day; Martha had 
trouble with her stomach, and Ruth had 
liver trouble and bad colds most of the 
time. He found they lived mostly on 
toast and tea and coffee, and they never 
stepped out of the house if they could 
help it. 
“After he’d got all the information he 
wanted, he sat looking at the fioor ever 
so long, and then he says, ‘I will cure 
you if you will do just as I say for three 
months. Will you do it?’ 
“They all said they would, but that 
wa’n’t enough for Dr. Norton. He tore 
a leaf out of his note-book and wrote on 
it, T solemnly promise to do exactly as 
Dr. Norton directs for three months.’ 
Then he had all three of them sign their 
names to it. They was dretful conscien¬ 
tious women, and he knew they’d keep 
their promise, if it killed ’em. 
“ ‘Now,’ he says, ‘I’m not going to 
give you any medicine this time, but 
there’s something I’m going to get you 
to do for me. You know that clump of 
pines I’ve got down back of your house? 
Well, I’m going to have them cut off. I 
want you to board the two men that are 
going to do the work.' 
“ ‘Oh, we couldn’t—we’re not able—’ 
they begun, but he stopped ’em by re¬ 
minding them of their promise, ‘i’ll 
bring the men over to-morrow or next 
day,’ he says, ‘so you can have their 
room! ready for them. You won’t need 
to be afraid of them,’ he says. ‘They’ve 
worked for me before, and I know 
they’re honest, steady fellows. The only 
thing you’ll want to look out for is to 
give them plenty to eat, for cutting wood 
gives anybody a ferocious appetite.’ 
Then he got up and started out of the 
room. 
“ ‘Oh, by the way,’ he says, as he put 
on his gloves. ‘You must have the win¬ 
dows of your sleeping rooms opened a 
crack every night. The air here is per¬ 
fectly vile,’ and he went to one of the 
windows and reached up and punched 
his fist through one of the little panes 
of glass. 
“After he’d gone I s’pose they had a 
terrible time. I guess they cried and 
took on for quite a while. But there was 
their promise, and there was them two 
men a-coming in a day or so, and they 
just had to stop feeling bad and go to 
work. 
“The very next day the men came and 
went to work. The doctor had given 
them directions, and told ’em to get the 
three Ellsworths out of doors as much 
as they could. The wood lot was about 
half a mile back of the house, and the 
men pretended they couldn’t spare time 
to come up to dinner, so the sisters must 
bring their dinner to them. Weil, the 
sisters they was awful timid, and one 
of 'em didn’t dare to go alone, and there 
wa’n’t one of ’em that could be hired 
to stay in the house alone, so all three 
of ’em had to go with the dinners. Nat¬ 
urally the walk give ’em a good appetite, 
so when they got home they’d just eat 
a good hearty dinner themselves. 
“The men they was real interested in 
Dr. Norton’s cure, and they managed it 
somehow so that before a week had 
gone by the sisters would stay down in 
the woods and eat their dinner with 
’em. They’d have a good fire bui’ning, 
and fix some place for ’em to sit, and 
there all five of ’em would picnic. And 
it got so they’d stay half the afternoon 
maybe, and watch the men at work. Of 
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course this was only on good days. 
When it was terrible cold or stormy, the 
men would come up to dinner. 
“Well, it ain’t no wonder the Ells¬ 
worth sisters begun to feel more like 
something. Being out doors so much, 
and the smell of the pine, and having 
some work to do, and the excitement of 
having some real live men in the family 
it was all bound to make a change in 
’em, and at the end of two months they 
was just as well as any of us. 
“I tell you Dr. Norton was tickled 
enough. He come in one day and sat 
and laughed till I got all out of patience 
with him. 
“ ‘Do you remember how they seemed 
the first of the Winter?’ he says. ‘Pale 
and pasty looking, shut up in an airtight 
house that smelled like the silent tomb, 
only louder, and if a bit of fresh air 
managed to get smuggled in they get 
out of the way of it as if ’twas the pes¬ 
tilence? Well, I went there to-day and 
found the house locked up and I couldn’t 
raise anybody. I thought they’d gone 
visiting, so as my patients were miss¬ 
ing, I thought I’d go down and see how 
my men were getting along with the 
wood cutting. Well, if you’ll believe 
me, when I got down to the lot there 
were two of my patients at work on a 
fallen pine tree with a cross-cut saw; 
the third one was standing by with the 
measuring stick in her hand, and the 
two men were at work on the same tree 
cutting off the limbs. I stayed and 
watched for awhile, and then I came 
away. I couldn’t bear to break in on 
the pastoral scene.’ 
“ ‘Those are uncommon young men,’ 
I says. 
“ ‘That they are,’ he agreed. ‘They’ve 
done wonders. I didn’t expect they 
would understand what I wanted of ’em 
so well.’ 
“ ‘They seem real likely young men, 
too,’ I says, ‘and I’m glad of it, for tbere 
may more come out of this than either 
of us thought of at first.’ 
“I had to laugh when I see how blank 
the doctor looked, and then how scared. 
“You don’t mean it. Aunt Asenath,’ he 
says. ‘ You’re just teasing me.’ 
“ ‘Perhaps I be,’ I says, ‘but I’ve had 
a better chance than you have to see 
how things are going. You never can 
tell,’ I says, real severe, ‘what will be 
the consequences when you attempt to 
mix in with human affairs. You better 
not make any further mischief, though, 
trying to undo what you’ve already 
done.’ 
“I see I’d kinder upset him, and he 
went away looking real blue, but the 
next day he come in and he seemed to 
be feeling better. ‘I’ve been thinking 
over what you said yesterday,’ he says, 
‘and it seems to me if there is any blame 
you’ll have to share it with me. But the 
more I think it over the less it worries 
me. Why shouldn’t they get married. 
I’d like to know? And which ones are 
they?’ 
“ ‘You’re as curious as you ever ac¬ 
cused me of being,’ I says, ‘but you’ll 
have to wait like the rest of us. I’m 
sure I don’t know which ones is inter¬ 
ested in which ones, but unless I’m 
greatly mistaken something’s going to 
happen sometime.’ 
“And I was right, though it wa’n’t till 
a year afterwards that the wedding come 
off. It was the youngest Ellsworth girl. 
Some of the neighbors thought ’twas a 
terrible thing, but it didn’t seem so to 
me. He was an honest, hard-working 
man, and they was fond of each other. 
“Yes, they all live together, and Dr. 
Norton don’t have to prescribe for ’em 
no more. It was a permanent cure.’’ 
SUSAN BROWN ROBBINS. 
ANEMIA 
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