HOW DOCTOR POTT'S POLLED THROUGH.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3787, 16 February 1881, Page 2

HOW DOCTOR POTT'S POLLED THROUGH.

Young Gluckerson met old Judge Van Snyder on the ferry the other day, and after shaking hands with that venerable friend of the family' said casually— " Did you hear of that terrible accident up at Pott's the other night p" " Accident ? Why my dear friend, no. Nothing serious, I hope?" said thfe judge much interested. '•'; :; ... : " Well. I'll tell you how it was," said Gluckerson in a mournful voice. "You see, the old doctor was out until about two in the morning attending some patients, and, supposing he would be hungry when he came in, Mrs Potts put a large pan of mush and milk— the doctor's favourite dish, you know —aoder the stove to keep warm for him." ■ " Yes ! yes !'' said the judge eagerly, as Gluckerson stopped to light a' cigar. "Go on—what then ? " . . . " Well, the doctor came in after a while and went groping round in the dark room for his mush—-couldn't find a match, you know—and, as luck .would have it, he picked, up a pan containing bread, put there, ito raise prer: night. He was too tired to notice the difference —besides he had .taken two or three nips ' as he drove round, and so he ate up all the dough!" : " Gracious " said the judge. "It's a fact, though; Well; iqwafcU morning the doctor, began to swell, !'ahd j swell—the yeast was just ' getting "its work in, you know-—and pretty soon the whole family wai up and.rushing around half distracted.,^, The dpctp.r^kep.t;;,qn groaning and ! ana -'s^e^ing, until he looked like a Saratoga" trunk. 'j&.t last they found out what he had/ done, and the whole family piled, right on top of him, and sat there while they'sent for a cooper." " A cooper?" "Yes; you see they saw at once that unless something was done the doctor would burst beforel morning. So the cooper started in and put nine of those big half-inch beer keg hoops around his stomach. Of. course that stopped the swelling and by keeping a tin tube down his throat for gas to escape, he just managed to pull through." ..,.,,....■ : " Oh, the doctor pulled through did he ! " Oh ! yes ; he's all right, now, exceptiug—" "Excuse me," said the judge grimly, as he took out his note book, " but will you favour me with your middle name in full. They are getting up a medal for the champion liar in the state, by order of the governor, and I think I'll send in your—" ' * But the boat had landed, and the promising young candidate" hVd 'melted away in the crowd.—" San Francisco Post." •...■■■ -„,,;(