Bill," to a half-grown youth who sat on a rude bench within lazily smoking a pipe--"run and fetch the gentleman's hoss.

But what's yer hurry, mister ?" "This," he answered, pointing to the disabled limb; "it's growing worse, and I'm in haste to get home, where I can be nursed by mother and sisters, before I quite give out." "She's a awful sperited cratur, and you'll have a hard job o' it to manage her, with one hand." "I must try it, nevertheless; I believe I can do it too; for she knows her master." "She'll go like lightnin'," said the boy, as he brought the animal to the door; "she's been so long in the stable, she's as wild and scary as a bird." Jackson threw the gold into the woman's lap, turned about and taking the bridle from the boy, stroked, patted, and talked soothingly to the excited steed, who was snorting and pawing the ground in a way that boded danger to any one attempting to mount.
His caresses and kindly tones seemed, however, to have a calming effect; she grew comparatively quiet, he sprang into the saddle and was off like an arrow from the bow.
It was about that time the doctor returned to his office to find it deserted.

Nap was summoned.
"What's become of the man I left here in your charge, sirrah ?" asked the doctor sternly.
"Dunno, sah, Massa Doctah," answered Nap, glancing in astonishment from side to side.

"To't he heyah, sah; 'deed I did.

Took he coat an' boots to clean 'em; to't he safe till I fotch 'em back; wouldn't go off without dem." The doctor stepped to the closet.