Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — The Surgeon and the Sentry. [ARTICLE]

The Surgeon and the Sentry.

Army and Navy Review. The army surgeon Was one night annoyed by the . coughing of the sentry outside his tent. Unable to sleep he decided that something must be done for the man and so compounded him a strong and very disagree able dose of medicine.yThen. going out, he ordered the man to take it: Tne sentry refused at first politely and afterward adgsrity and emphatically. But the surgeon sternly insisted upon his rights and the man was finally induced to swallow Ahe compound. v ■ The result was evidently satisfactory. The sound of coughing ceased in the camp, and the surgeon went to sleep with the consciousness of having done a good deed. The next morning he was summoned by the officer in command, who said to him: “How is this, sir? I hear serious complaints about you in relation to the sentries. One of them has reported that in the middle of the night you came out of your tent and abused him, in the most dreadful manner. He said jrtra made him. Swallow a drink which must haye been poison.” The guard bad oeeh relieved while the surgeon y; compounding the mixture and be nad 'uired the wrong man.