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Wait till Mees Varing's rich American friends come along and buy some of the great Vogel's pictures. You will see." "But has the Mees any rich friends?" asked her crony the Frau Doctorin. And then the parson's widow laughed in a worldly way. "So pretty a girl," she said, "so fine a complexion, such little feet! And those winning ways!"
Pettigrove, that "Samanthy Ann Ripley's father never would 'a' died if he'd ever had any doctorin'; but 't was the gospel truth that they never had nobody to 'tend him but a hom'pathy man from Scratch Corner, who, of course, bein' a hom'path, didn't know no more about doctorin' 'n Cooper's cow."
It don't need any carin' for. An' if it did, I reckon to be able to do my own doctorin'." She looked at him steadily and something in her gaze made him feel uncomfortable. "Don't be silly," she said. She turned and went out into the kitchen. He could hear her working over the stove.
Her knowledge of the range told her that Lem had narrated nothing so far which could have been cause for his cold, grim, evasive manner; and her woman's intuition divined a catastrophe. "Nope.... Wils's hoss fell on him." Lem broke that final news with all a cowboy's bluntness. "Was he hurt Lem!" cried Columbine. "Say, Miss Collie," remonstrated Lem, "we're doctorin' up your hoss.
"'Well, says he, 'I diagnosed that men's club as sufferin' from acute politics. I've been doctorin' that disease for a long time. The trouble with you reformers, he adds, solemn, 'is that, when it comes to political doin's, you ain't practical. "As for Stingy Gabe, he shut up his fine house and moved to New York. Said he was through with helpin' the moral tone.
"Gentlemen," he said, assuming a manner, "did your honorable peace officer here tell you what he said about the wife of the man who is layin' wounded and helpless in his own house? And did your honorable peace officer tell you-all that it is her money that is payin' for the board and doctorin' of Tony Brewster, likewise layin' wounded and helpless in your midst?
No, I don't want to buy one." "Why not? Sell you mine for a price." "Not if I see you fust, thank you. No, Mr. Dunn, 'tain't that. But one of the hired help up to our place Caroline's place, I mean is in trouble on account of one of the dratted machines. They're poor folks, of course, and they need money to help 'em through the doctorin' and nursin' and while the old man's out of work.
A farmer's daughter, whose rosy cheeks and plump figure elicited from me a gratulatory comment upon her robust appearance, indignantly informed me that she was "by no means strong, and had been doctorin' off and on for a year past for the malaria." "Do you eat and sleep tolerably well?" "Oh, yes," with the plaintive whine peculiar to the would-be invalid. "I sleep dreadful heavy.
"Yas'em we comes back to Louieville. Yes'em mah chillen goes to school, lak ah nevah did. Culled teachers in de culled school. Yes'em mah chillen went far as dey could take 'em." "Medicin? My ol' mammy were great fo herb doctorin' an I holds by dat too a good deal, yas'em. Now-a-days you gets a rusty nail in yo foot an has lockjaw.
She's the salt o' the earth an' rock-salt at that. She's saved too many o' my patients by her good nursin', in spite o' my poor doctorin', for me not to appreciate her. But that don't reconcile me to the way she doses you for her worries." "It took me a long time to see that myself, doctor.
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