Stories of a country doctor / by Willis P. King.

  • King, Willis P., 1839-1909.
Date:
1890,
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Stories of a country doctor / by Willis P. King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    She must win him back. He must return. She puts her poor little wits to work to devise means by which she can influence him, and, foolish girl that she is, does the very thing that she ought not. But she is sensational and romantic, or nothing, and what- ever she does must have the elements of a tragedy in it. She goes down town and purchases ten cents’ worth of strychnia or morphia. Then she goes home and changes the poison for flour and, going into the presence of her mother and sister, she empties the flour into her mouth, takes a drink of water, and throwing herself into a trag- ic attitude says, ‘‘Oh, dear mother and sister I must die. ] have taken poison,” and then flops down on the sofa, shuts both eyes tightly and goes to foaming at the mouth. Of course the mother and sister are alarmed. The family physician or “‘ any physician,” is sent for in hot haste. He comes, and, whether ignorantly or not depends on circumstances, fills the miserable thing with whites of eggs and rancid grease and sits by her bed- side all night. After a while she begins to show signs of returning consciousness; she rolls and moans and finally exclaims, “Oh Henry! My Henry! Oh, don’t let them kill my dear Henry! Bring him to me and I will die in his place.” | Now this is a fine case of private theatricals. Per- haps Henry is sent for and perhaps not. At all events Henry is a rascal and he feels that he is in his very bones. The morning paper announces that,
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