Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — Hallucination. [ARTICLE]

Hallucination.

“Hallucination!” said Dr. Jenks. “Knew a man once who thought his legs were made of glass. Lived down East. An old, wealthy, dyspeptic bachelor. I think the idea about his legs was the result of dyspepsia. Any way, he was so afraid of having his legs broken that he cried .out whenever any one approached thelied. There was an old doctor in the vicinity who was half mad himself, and this old fellow determined to cure hin. One day he called and asked the old man to come out for a drive. Of course the old fellow was horrified, but the doctor insisted, and he at last consented to go ; A bed was made up in the doctor’s conveyance, and the dyspeptic carried out and tenderly laid in it. They drove off and alaout, until over a hill a little distance off they saw the stage coming. “Then the doctor, by a dexterous twist of the lines, overturned the buggy and tumbled the old man out into the middle of the road. Of course he cried out that he was done for, but the doctor righted his buggy and drove off, leaving him. squirming in the middle of the road, and quite unable to move, owing to his glass legs. Suddenly he was alarmed by a shout, and saw the stage come tearing down the slope, heading straight for him. He gesticulated, but the doctor had fixed things with the driver, and the stage came right along. Well, the old fellow stood it until the stage was only a few feet away. , Then he jumped up and ran—ran clean back to town - -and was never bothered with glass legs again.”— Detroit Times.