Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — The Foot Astray. [ARTICLE]

The Foot Astray.

William F. Cody was once relating a story which concerned an Indian who had met with an accident In a Buffalo Bill show. It was necessary to amputate the Indian’s leg, and in the description of this operation Cody was Interrupted frequently by a young doctor who injected technical and medical terms into the straight vernacular of the scout He was Irritated, but ignored the doctor. “A few days after the operation,” continued the narrator, “the Indian learned that his leg had been buried. With a whoop he leaped from his bed and jumped upon the doctor with both feet.” “Jumped with both feet after an operation?” shouted the doctor, exulting in his exposure of the great scout’s absurd story. “I said upon the ‘doctor with both feet,’ ” explained Cody, “in order to distinguish him from the other hospital physician, who had only one foot, having put the other into people’s affairs so often that he lost it”