Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 — John Shaqi
Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
Well, what would he be doing all this time? If he was not dead yet,
which would be a wonder, his left hand would brush the hair away from
her temple, and kind of stay there to keep the hair away, and his right
hand would get sort of nervous and move around to the back of her head,
and when she had counted the heart beats a few minutes and was raising
her head, he would draw the head up to him and kiss her once for luck,
if he was as bilious as a Jersey swamp angel, and have her charge it in
the bill; and then a reaction would set in, and he would be as weak as
a cat, and she would have to fan him and rub his head till he got over
being nervous, and then make out her prescription after he got asleep.
No; all of a man's symptoms change when a female doctor is practicing on
him, and she would kill him dead.
The _Sun_ is a woman's rights paper, and believes in allowing women to
do anything that they can do as well as men, and is in favor of paying
them as well as men are paid for the same work, taking all things into
consideration; but it is opposed to their trifling with human life,
by trying to doctor a total stranger. These colleges are doing a great
wrong in preparing these female doctors for the war path, and we desire
to enter a protest in behalf of twenty million men who could not stand
the pressure.
CROSSMAN'S GOAT.
Mr. Crossman, of Marshall street, is a man who was once a boy himself,
if his memory serves him, and no boy of his is going to ask him for
anything that is in his power to purchase and be refused. But when
his boy asked him to buy a goat Mr. Crossman felt hurt. It was not
the expense of the goat that he looked at, but he never had felt that
confidence in the uprightness of the moral character of a goat that he
wanted to feel.
A goat he always associated in his mind with a tramp, and he did not
feel like bringing among the truly good children of the neighborhood a
goat. He told his boy that he was sorry he had lavished his young and
tender affections on a goat, and hoped that he would try and shake off
the feeling that his life's happiness would be wrecked if he should
refuse to buy him a goat. The boy put his sleeve up over his eyes and
began to shed water, and that settled it.
Mr. Crossman's religion is opposed to immersion, and when the infant
baptism began his proud spirit was conquered, and he told the boy
to lead on and he would buy the goat. They went over into the Polack
settlement and a Countess there, who takes in washing, was bereaved of
the goat, while Mr. Crossman felt that he was a dollar out of pocket.
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