The Meeker herald., 1907-10-26

summoned to his past grand worship
full presence, what's gnawin' the peo-
pie of this realm? What kind Of =
bug have they got now. huh?"
The physician stood . moment be-
tween fear and perplexity.
Il don't quite comprehend the ma
ture Of your maJesty's Interrogation.
he ventured at last to observe.
What's that? You don't careen to
my George AIDE breeze? Your balloon
jlb don't fill to my jabber gust. heb?
My advanced-thousht air currents pass
over your mental top-gallant. do they?
Well. Ill see II ! can yank them down
to level with your bilge-water intel
lect What want to know is. what
the dickens ails my people? Half OF
'em are 30 dumnation good that they
give me the saccharine sickness. When
they come into my royal presence they
make me feel as II ! had eaten 80
charlotte russes in 80 minutes.
After four minutes with one Of
these human cream puts the other
day hustled out to the kitchen for
dill pickle. Then. on the other hand,
INC iCbk u PCOPtO 0iS oo thuAaSA
In bad there's no gettin' along with
'em at all. Seems as If the very diel
was In EN- and they were glad Of 1t.
To be sure. they're something of an
improvement on those animated me-
ringue buildings that constitute the
other hah, but their everlasting ras-
cality becomes irksome when you
have to wallow through 1t eight days
in the week.
Now, then. Doc. it's up to you to
peek into the pack and get wise as to
why people amt built on less monot-
onous lines Why did pay rs hard
earned bue ks to run up through med
ical college In 60 days and buy you a
diploma printed in a dead and buried
language? What do l give you your
clothes and keep fog II 1t amt to have
you cure me of that tired feeling my
ornery subjects give me?
do you savvy what I'm driving at?
I want you to get a squirt on you and
iind out how to make folks sort up
little evener; and I'm in hurry about
1t. too"
Il think perceive" said the physi-
clan. backing to the doorway. where
he gracefully salaamed.
Thereupon his majesty kicked him
out and slammed the door, the while
he chuckled merrily to himself for
that he had performed an exceeding
meritorious pun.
The next day the surgeon begged
audience Of the king. saying that he
had diagnosed the case Of the people
and was prepared to make his report.
Let 'er flicker" the king command
ed, seating himself upon the arm Of
his throne and drawing his purple robe
shout his hare legs, for the spring was
shy and backward that year.
your majesty" the physician be-
gan. " ind the diathetic conditions OF
your people to be both pathological
and"
Come off," the king interrupted.
"You talk like = subway engineer.
Who knows what the deuce 1t means?"
II fnd," the doctor began again.
that the trouble with your people il
in their blood. Some Of them have
only white corpuscles. and this makes
them rather too good, while the rest
have only red corpuscles, which makes
them rather too bad. II may venture
. suggestion, your majesty"
Hold on! Do you venture 1t a. a
physician or as member Of the board
of estimator"
AS physician. your majesty"
Very well. then: go ahead"
Il would suggest that you Issue .
royal ukase commanding the good and
the bad people Of the realm to inter
marry. This would bring about COM
mingling of the two kinds Of blood,
and In q few generations you would
have race in which good and bad1
would be pretty evenly distributed in
each individual"
There you co. shouted the king
n was afraid you were going to talk
like q board member. Dye think I'm
going to wait several generations for
this new order of things? Dye think
I'm goin' to deal four aces to posterity
and take a pair O. deuces for myself?
Not much. Mary Ann, I'm out for the
Joyous Now with cap N. Me for the
gladstone present, the fleeting Already
Yet. Look here! You trot out your Il
contraptions for bleeding folks and get
busy. Just draw half the blood out
Of the good people and half out of the
bad people. and swap 'em over. savvy?
want you to pump half white blood
into the strenuous ones and half red
blood into the mollycoddles. and strike
and average. See?"
but both sides will object to that,
your majesty"
Let 'em object. II you're SO mealy
about 1t you can stick up signs in the
street, telling 'em 1t amt your doings. I,
Lay 1t of on me II you like. but get a
go on you and do business. Clear out
O. here!"
When the surgeon general had hus-
k1od Oytf fn do ha hlD1.,