. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia . themaround, jest what I had tolled him not to do. Icomprehended the situashin in a jiffy. Ses I, , I understand all about this case, an efyoull stand back about four inches, an do jest asI tell you, well have the Kernel all rite in notime. Then, turnin round, ses I, Stantin, Iwant you to lend a hand, too, and make yourselfginnerally useful, an dont run off an issoo a proc-lamashin afore you know what is what. Now,ses I, the feller that got the elder bark for theKernel scraped it the rong way, an the medicinewont work. The o
. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia . themaround, jest what I had tolled him not to do. Icomprehended the situashin in a jiffy. Ses I, , I understand all about this case, an efyoull stand back about four inches, an do jest asI tell you, well have the Kernel all rite in notime. Then, turnin round, ses I, Stantin, Iwant you to lend a hand, too, and make yourselfginnerally useful, an dont run off an issoo a proc-lamashin afore you know what is what. Now,ses I, the feller that got the elder bark for theKernel scraped it the rong way, an the medicinewont work. The only way to get it rite is to rollthe Kernel over fourteen times clean across thefloor. It is a tough remedy, but desput diseasesrequire desput remedies. So I telled Seward anStantin to take hold, and the way we rolled theKernel over an over was a caushin. It seemed asef it might break every bone in his body, for hisframe is so sharp an so full of angles that it jarredan jolted like rollin over a wagin wheel wentheres no fellers on the spokes. Finally he cum. MAJOR JACK DOWNING. 129 to, an we lifted him on the bed, an in a little whilehe felt like another person. Seward an Stantinlooked skeert yet, but I telled them they neednthave no fears—that the Kernel was as sound asa dollar. Stantin said hed hurt his spine in rollinLin-kin; at eny rate, he puffed an blowed like aporpose. I telled him to go home an take some ofChases greenbacks for a poultice, an ef thatdidnt cure him, then there warnt no virtue in legal tenders. Seward sed, as I was sich a gooddoctor hed like to know what was good for he was a boy he sed he pizened one of hisfeet, an that it had allers trubbled him, more orless, ever sence. I telled him to get one of Sum-ners speeches, an bind on the place, for therewarnt enything like pizen to draw out pizen, andI thought Sumners speeches would draw pizen outof ded men, and that I wondered the doctorshadnt got to usin them for bringin to life peoplewho had kil
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