"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.
- Irvin S. Cobb
- Date:
- [1915], ©1915
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: "Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cept that they are dead. I am not here to seek medical assistance for a grandparent who succumbed to disappointment that time when Samuel J. Tilden got counted out, or for a great-grandparent who entered into Eternal Rest very unexpectedly and in a manner entirely uncalled for as a result of being an innocent bystander in one of those feuds that were so popular in my native state immediately following the Mexican War. Leave my ancestors alone. There is no need of your shaking my family tree in the belief that a few overripe pa¬ tients will fall out. I alone—I, me, myself —am the present candidate!” However, I refrained from making this protest audibly. I judged she was only go¬ ing according to the ritual; and as she had a printed card, with blanks in it ready to be filled out with details regarding the re¬ mote members of the family connection, I humored her along. When I could not remember something she wished to know concerning an ancestor I supplied her with thrilling details culled from the field of fancy. When the card [24]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
