. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon (and other sketches); or, In the doctor's sappy days . The Lord will Nick, the pious. 4iOh, Doctor, dont make fun of your friend thatway/ I said. Its a fact, said the Old Doctor, and he shook174 OLD SISTER NICK. with good natured mirth at the recollection. But Jimmie was a good boy, as his motheroften declared. The Lord will purvide, she used to say, as she. Ellen, the pieist. sat knitting socks for Jimmie,—she was eternallyknitting,—and I reckon Jimmie had as many socksas Bud Zuntz had undershirts, and like Budsshirts, they were, as Euth McEn
. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon (and other sketches); or, In the doctor's sappy days . The Lord will Nick, the pious. 4iOh, Doctor, dont make fun of your friend thatway/ I said. Its a fact, said the Old Doctor, and he shook174 OLD SISTER NICK. with good natured mirth at the recollection. But Jimmie was a good boy, as his motheroften declared. The Lord will purvide, she used to say, as she. Ellen, the pieist. sat knitting socks for Jimmie,—she was eternallyknitting,—and I reckon Jimmie had as many socksas Bud Zuntz had undershirts, and like Budsshirts, they were, as Euth McEnery Steward saysof them, all Ma-knit. Ef He will only spare me175 RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL SURGEON. my little Jimmie, I will always bless and sarveHim. Jimmie and I used to go fishing together; goodfishing about Lauderdale; tell you a good one aboutit some day, if you will remind me. Sister Nick was a little pudgy old lady withsmall gray watery eyes, a little dab of a nose thatlooked like it had been stuck on after she was built,as an after thought; thin brown hair, turning gray,parted in the middle, and wound into a little dabat the back of her head not bigger than a hickorynut; a watery mouth suggestive of a kind of a juici-ness not very appetizing to look at, especially sobecause of its being always the amber hue of snuff,which she was never without. She wore a fadedcalico wrapper,—apparentl
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