Dr. Johnson’s Picture Cow
January 3, 2008 by admin
Filed under The Path to Home
Got a sliver in my hand
An’ it hurt t’ beat the band,
An’ got white around it, too;
Then the first thing that I knew
It was all swelled up, an’ Pa
Said : ” There’s no use f ussin’, Ma,
Jes’ put on his coat an’ hat ;
Doctor Johnson must see that.”
I was scared an’ yelled, because
One time when the doctor was
At our house he made me smelJ
Something funny, an’ I fell
Fast asleep, an’ when I woke
Seemed like I was goin’ t’ choke;
An’ the folks who stood about
Said I’d had my tonsils out.
An* my throat felt awful sore
An’ I couldn’t eat no more,
An’ it hurt me when I’d talk,
An’ they wouldn’t let me walk.
So when Pa said I must go
To the doctor’s, I said : ” No,
I don’t want to go to-night,
‘Cause my hand will be all right.”
Pa said : ” Take him, Ma,” an’ so
I jes’ knew I had t’ go.
An’ the doctor looked an’ said:
” It is very sore an’ red
Much too sore to touch at all.
See that picture on the wall,
That one over yonder, Bud,
With the old cow in the mud ?
” Once I owned a cow like that,
Jes’ as brown an’ big an’ fat,
An’ one day I pulled her tail
An’ she kicked an’ knocked the pail
Full o’ milk clean over me.”
Then I looked up there t’ see
His old cow above the couch,
An’ right then I hollered ‘ouch.’ ‘
” Bud,” says he, ” what’s wrong with you ;
Did the old cow kick you, too? ”
An’ he laughed, an’ Ma said : ” Son,
Never mind, now, it’s all done.”
Pretty soon we came away
An’ my hand’s all well to-day.
But that’s first time that I knew
Picture cows could kick at you.
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