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"And the milk-sick, they say the milk-sick is all over the Eeleenoy." "We're not borrowing any trouble about such things," said Grandma Padgett. "Some of our townsfolks went out there," continued the wagon-maker, "but what was left of 'em come back. They had to buy their drinkin' water, and the winters on them perrares froze the children in their beds!
"They've come huntin' them from away over in Illinois. I remember that year the milk-sick was so bad there was more horse-thieves than we've ever heard of since." "But they ain't true robbers, are they?" said aunt Corinne's nephew in some disgust, his scarlet bandits paling. "Not the kind that come tryin' the house when I got scared," admitted the toll-woman.
And with what unerring gift of prophecy could he foretell the long and husky droughts of summer the gracious rains, at last, the milk-sick breeding autumn and the blighting winter, simply by the way his bones felt after a century's casual attack of inflammatory rheumatism!
But it's pizener than milk-sick or loco-weed. It's aqua-fortis, fish-berries, tobacco juice and ratsbane. That stuff'd eat a hole in a tin pan." "The Captain turned the rest o' his money over to the hospital," continued the Deacon. "I might do that." "Never do it in the world, Pap," protested Si. "Better burn it up at once. It'd be the next worst thing to givin' it back to him.
A wordy war ensued, but the first-comer was stalwart and determined. The row waked up Shorty, who appeared with an ax. "All right," said one of the men, looking at the ax; "keep your durned old milk, if you're so stingy toward hungry soldiers. It'll give you milk-sick, anyway. There's lots o' milk-sick 'round here. All the cows have it. That cow has it bad. I kin tell by her looks.
After the first outbreak the Baylor bullies of the lost manhood stripe and their milk-sick apologists held a windy powwow in a Baptist church, and there bipedal brutes with beards, creatures who have thus far succeeded in dodging the insane asylum, whom an inscrutable Providence has kept out of the penitentiary to ornament the amen-corner many of whom do not pretend to pay their bills some of whom owe me for the very meat upon the bones of their scorbutic brats branded me as a falsifier while solemnly protesting that they had never read a line of my paper.
Jest bring along all the milk-sick you've got on hand, and I'll keep it from hurtin' anybody else. That's the kind of a philanthropist I am." "I see you've got a cow here," said a large man wearing a dingy blue coat with a Captain's faded shoulder-straps. "I'm a Commissary, and it's my duty to take her." He walked over and in a businesslike way began unfastening the rope.
This much is certain: that it disappears from "milk-sick coves" when they are cleared of timber and the sunlight let in. The prevalent treatment is an emetic, followed by large doses of apple brandy and honey; then oil to open the bowels.
It had an attic, and for a stairway there were pegs in the wall up which an active boy could readily climb. There was a stationary table, the legs being driven into the ground, some three-legged stools, and a Dutch oven. In the year 1818 a mysterious epidemic passed over the region, working havoc with men and cattle. It was called the "milk-sick."
"Look here, I'm a Corporal, commanding the advance guard," said Si. "I order you!" This seemed to open the fountains of the man's soul. "You order me?" he yelled, "you splay-footed, knock-kneed, chuckled-headed paper-collared, whitegloved sprat from a milk-sick prairie. Corporal! I outrank all the Corporals from here to Christmas of next year."
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