. Stories of a country doctor . d stopped him. The negro thinks youare wrong, but your explanation satisfied me. In a neighborhood where I once lived there was anIrishman who professed to be a veterinary did not call them veterinary surgeons in thosedays; they were horse farriers. The Irishman did notknow anything about the diseases of animals, but he wasfull of the superstitious nonsense of those days. Amongother things he knew how to give a cow her Mac. was destined to come to grief. He was sent for in the case of a sick cow. After amost critical examination of the cow h
. Stories of a country doctor . d stopped him. The negro thinks youare wrong, but your explanation satisfied me. In a neighborhood where I once lived there was anIrishman who professed to be a veterinary did not call them veterinary surgeons in thosedays; they were horse farriers. The Irishman did notknow anything about the diseases of animals, but he wasfull of the superstitious nonsense of those days. Amongother things he knew how to give a cow her Mac. was destined to come to grief. He was sent for in the case of a sick cow. After amost critical examination of the cow he exclaimed, Phy, yez ought to know phatsthe matter wid the cow ; 124 Superstitions, Traditions and Foolish Ideas. shes loisth her cood. He at once prepared the abom-inable bolus which was to supply the loisth cood. Hethrust it down her throat as well as he could with hishand and arm and then took the butt end of a blacksnake whip and used it as a ram rod. He either madehis substitute too large or he got it into the windpipe—. EF YEZ never seen a cow PHATS died from the avHER COOD YEZ SEE IT NOW. the cow, after a short struggle, straightened out anddied. Some one remarked, Shes dead. After contem-plating her very seriously for a few moments Mc Geesaid, Yes, shes dead ; an ef yez never seen a cow Superstitions, Traditions and Foolish Ideas. 125 phats died from the losin av her cood yez see it now,and he departed. But the cause of the death was too plain. At another time there was a public sale in theneighborhood. There was a great crowd. Somebodyshorse took sick with colic, or something more horse was lying down and there was a greatcrowd around him, each man suggesting a different rem-edy, and each clinching the argument in favor of hisabomination by the statement that he never knowed itto fail. Mac. was walking around on the outside of thecrowd with a sort of assumed professional air, expect-ing to be called, but everybody knew about the cowthat died from
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