A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford.

  • James Gregory Mumford
Date:
1912
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Credit: A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Desmond’s place. The doctor passed us on the road, his famous Morgan speeding. We must have been a half-hour after him in reaching the house. Dr. Hicks was there, but all was over. Poor Frank had died in the wagon going home. It was still dusk; the windows not alight. The place was sad enough, the house one of those dreary two-story carpenter- modeled structures most common in city suburbs. The paths leading to the doors were almost smoth- ered in tall Timothy grass awaiting the scythe. The forlorn little front door, up five steps, looked as though never opened, and bore upon its middle panel the twisting handle of an unused bell. From the back door issued an old woman, ‘the help,’ bearing a great basket in both hands, the tears unheeded streaming on her cheeks. “Dr. Hicks came out leading poor Desmond, speechless. Other neighbors gathered with us and heard the tale. The accident had happened towards the hot day’s close. Frank Hale was tired; he had been ‘feeding’ the machine for many hours. He grew careless and rushed his work. On a sudden he shouted, ‘Stop.’ They saw him leaning forward, and they knew his arm was in the teeth. An instant halt they could not make. The horses stopped, but
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