The Menace, an Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of a Country Doctor Page: 123
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Chas. D. Dixon, M. D. 123
Where Doc Shropshire "pulls the badger," on knowin'
tenderfeet,
And Democracy's triumphant, and mighty hard
to beat;
Where lives that good old rounder, Doc Moss
from Lamar,
Who use to be the "hot stuff" with the ladies back East,
in Paris Sah;
'T was there I say at Santone, with the lively "widder
wall,"
That I went to that reception, "The Doctor's Christmas
Ball."
The doctors had left their practice, and come to town in
piles;
The ladies kinder scatterin' had gathered in
for miles,
And yet the place was crowded, as I remember
well,
'T was got for the accasion, at the "St. Anthony
Hotel,"
The music was a fiddle an' a lively
tamborine,
And a "viol" came imported by the stage from old Dan
Breen's.
The room was togged out gorgeous, with mistletoe and
shawls,
And candles flickered frescoes, around the airy
walls.
The "wimmin folks" looked lovely, the boys looked kinder
treed,
Till Billie King commenced yellin': "Whoa; fellers, lest
stampede."
And the music started sighin', an' wailing through the
hall,
As a kind of introduction to "The Doctor's Christmas
Ball."
The leader was a feller that come from Montgomery's
ranch.
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Dixon, Chas. D. (Charles D.). The Menace, an Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of a Country Doctor, book, 1914; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143569/m1/141/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.