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Shivers a deal w'en it ain't cold, groans now an' then, an whimpers a good deal. It strikes me, now though I ain't a reg'lar sawbones that there's suthin' wrong with her in'ards." "I'll finish breakfast quickly and go over with you to see her," said I. "Don't need to 'urry, sir," returned Slidder; "she ain't wery bad not much wuss than or'nary on'y I've bin too anxious about her poor old thing.
Although he was sixty-eight, he showed as much briskness and sprightliness as any young sawbones calling in a friendly way to perform a little operation. He had brought an instrument case, some linen bands and some lint. However, he became angry on finding the injured man nervous, flushed and hot with fever. "Ah! I see that you haven't been reasonable, my dear child," said he.
Sawbones will be up soon. Meanwhile, let's try and staunch the blood. We'll tear up your shirt for a bandage." And with rough but real kindness he tore open McKay's old greggo so as to get at his underlinen. This action betrayed the red cloth waistcoat he still wore. "Why, that's an English staff waistcoat. Quick! How did you come by it, you murdering rogue?" "I am a staff officer." "You!
Falchion said: "Why, now my words have come true; the scene can be made perfect. Pray step down to the valley, Dr. Marmion, and complete the situation, for you are trying to seem serious, and it is irresistibly amusing and professional, I suppose; one must not forget that you teach the young 'sawbones' how to saw." I was piqued, annoyed. I said, though I admit it was not cleverly said: "Mrs.
The barrow was got ready and the corpse placed on it, covered with a blanket, and bound to its place with the rope. Potter took out a large spring-knife and cut off the dangling end of the rope and then said: "Now the cussed thing's ready, Sawbones, and you'll just out with another five, or here she stays." "That's the talk!" said Injun Joe. "Look here, what does this mean?" said the doctor.
One night, about midnight, I was aroused by Le Mesurier-Groselin, who was in full fighting kit and had a queer light in his eyes which was new to me, though heaven and the Horse Guards know that I have seen it often enough since. "Get up Sawbones!" said Le Mesurier-Groselin. "You'll be wanted at any rate, but now I want you badly.
"They're as common as blackberries: you can pick 'em up for three-pound-ten a head." "I wouldn't do it under fifty if I were a sawbones," ejaculated John. "And then Michael," continued Morris, "is in the very thick of it. All his clients have come to grief; his whole business is rotten eggs.
Don't you know what a sawbones is, sir? inquired Mr. Weller. 'I thought everybody know'd as a sawbones was a surgeon. 'Oh, a surgeon, eh? said Mr. Pickwick, with a smile. 'Just that, sir, replied Sam. 'These here ones as is below, though, ain't reg'lar thoroughbred sawbones; they're only in trainin'. 'In other words they're medical students, I suppose? said Mr. Pickwick.
Now she has taken on with another chap another sawbones, ha, ha! d it, sir, she likes the pestle and mortar, and hangs round the pill-boxes, she's so fond of 'em, and she has got a fellow from Saint Bartholomew's, who grins through a horse-collar for her sisters, and charms away her melancholy. Go and see, sir: very likely he's in the lodge now.
Five minutes later a sailor wearing on one sleeve the Red Cross of the hospital squad came along. “Say,” said the marine, “I wish you’d look at the feller in the brig.” The hospital man showed his face at the grating and looked at Truax keenly. “Wow! The sawbones officer has got to look at this chap!” Sam Truax sprang to his feet, but his legs wobbled.
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