And ever since then I've had a hankerin' to be a doc.
Something about the idea of cuttin' into a man that always sort of tickled me.

They's only one main thing that holds me back--I don't like the idea of knifin' a feller when he ain't got a chance to fight back! That's me!" To this Doctor Randall Byrne bowed, rather dazed, but returned no answer.
"And how's your patient, doc ?" pursued the irresistible marshal.

"How's old Joe Cumberland?
I remember when me and Joe used to trot about the range together.

I was sort of a kid then; but think of old Joe bein' down in bed--sick! Why, I ain't never been sick a day in my life.

Sick?
I'd laugh myse'f plumb to death if anybody ever wanted me to go to bed.
What's the matter with him, anyway ?" "His nerves are a bit shaken about," responded the doctor.