. Wisconsin medical recorder . rted out to make my callsone summer evening, andwere emitted by a small butvery much excited boy whowas following my buggy ona run. The cry was takenup by my friends and neighbors whohad taken to the sidewalk to avoid theexcessive heat; owing to the passing ofa cable train I did not at the momentrealize that I was more than the subjectof good natured banter, until a fat,Dutch butcher ran into the street aheadof me flapping his white apron fran-tically, and when he could get his breath,comfortably asked with indignation,Why dont you stup once? By thistime I began
. Wisconsin medical recorder . rted out to make my callsone summer evening, andwere emitted by a small butvery much excited boy whowas following my buggy ona run. The cry was takenup by my friends and neighbors whohad taken to the sidewalk to avoid theexcessive heat; owing to the passing ofa cable train I did not at the momentrealize that I was more than the subjectof good natured banter, until a fat,Dutch butcher ran into the street aheadof me flapping his white apron fran-tically, and when he could get his breath,comfortably asked with indignation,Why dont you stup once? By thistime I began to realize that somethingrequired my skill and attention and Itried to make some headway from theexcited vernacular of the boy. SayDoc, youse is wanted; ders an old girldown the street hollering like a steamcalliope for youse to come. Ill showyouse de place. So taking the boy inthe rig the horse was started on a gallopand we soon reached Aunt Marys should have had no difficulty infinding it, however, as a crowd of sev-. eral hundred people sur-rounded the place while thegood woman was hangingout of the second story win-dow emitting yelps whichwere almost frenzied in theiremotions. When my familiarrig brought up before thedoor, the people parted so asto make room for me, andwhile I was trying to makesense out of Aunt Marys incoherentshrieks, the only intelligent thing Icould gather was Nan and Bob, thecrippled house dog. I was given con-siderable information from the crowd;was told that a murder had been com-mitted, and one woman volunteered theinformation that she had seen the manrun away. ■ He was dark and mediumheight, had a black mustache and lookedlike a Dago. As I got nearer to thehouse I heard that Nan was kidnappedand the dog was killed while defendingher, and I did not have any intelligentidea of the trouble until Blanche stuckher head out of the other window andtold me Bob had gone mad and hadbitten Nan. I could not get into the door owing toits being locked,
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