The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-09-12

o. HENRY.
opened the bathroom door. ana | took
my finger out Of the crack Of it. After
l had performed the marvellous digito-
nasal feat l said:
II do not wish to deceive you as to
symptoms. doctor. l really have some
thing like a pain in the back OF my
head" He ignored the symptom and
examine. my heart carefully with a
latest popular air penny in the slot ear
trumpet. l felt like , ballad.
Now" he said. ''gallop like Il horse
for about five minutes around the
room"
| gave the best imitation I could Of
a disqualified Percheron being led out
of Madison Square Garden. Then.
without dropping in a penny, he lis
tened to my chest again.
NO CHAMBERS iE u family, doc" l
said.
The consulting physician held up his
nose, Look at my finger" he COM
landed.
Now look across the bay. At my
finger. Across the by. At my finger.
At my finger. Across the bay. Across
the bay. At ~ finger. Across the
bay" This for about three minutes.
He explained that this was a test Of
the action of the brain. 1t seemed
easy to me. I never one mistook his
finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he
had used the phrases: Gaze, rs it
were. unprecedented. outward or.
rather. laterally in the direction Of
the horizon. underlaid. SO to speak,
with the adjacent fluid inlet" and
Now, returning-or, rather, in a man
ner. withdrawing YOU attention-be-
stow it upon my appraised digit" III
bet, l say, that Henry James himself
could have passed the examination.
After asking me if I had ever had a
granduncle with curvature of the spine
or a cousin with svelled ankles, the
two doctors retired to the bathroom
and sat on the edge Of their bathtub
for their consultation. I ate an apple
and cazed first at my finger and then
across the bay.
The doctors came out looking grave.
More, they looked tombstones. They
wrote out a diet list to which I was
to be restricted. 1t had everything
that l had w heard of to eat OH it.
except snails. And never eat n snail
unless it overtakes me and bites me
first.
You must follow this diet strictly
said the doctors.
I'D follow it a mile If I could get one.
tenth of what's on it," I answered.
'Of next Importance they went on
lis outdoor air and exercise. And here
is a prescription that will he of great
benefit to you"
Then all of us took something. They
took their hats. and took my leave.
I went to a druggist and showed him
the prescription.
1T will be S2.S7 for an ounce bottle
he said.
will you give me a piece of youl
wrapping cord?' said I.
l made a hole in the prescription, raj
the CoIu trough II, lleI IL aroma my
neck and tucked it inside. All of us
have a little superstition. and mine run.
to a confidence in amulcts.
OF curse there vas nothing the mat
ter with me, but was very i'll. Icoult
not work, sleep, eat or bowl. The onl,
way | could get any sympathy was t,
20 without shaving for four days. Ever
then somebody would say: odd man
YOU look as hardy AS Il pine knot. Beer
up for a jaunt in the Maine woods
ell:'
Then suddenly | remembered that
must have outdoor air and exercise, S,
, | Went down south to Johns. John i
an approximate relative by verdict of
: preacher stanuin. with Il little book Il
his hands in Il bower of chrysnnthe
: NUNS while Il hundred thousand pet
| pie looked on. John has Il countr
. house sever miles from pineville. 1t i
: at an altitude and on the Blue I;idg
l.. mountains in Il state too diyniticd to b
dragged into this controversy. John
r mica. which is more valuable and cleul
er than gold.
He me- me ut pineville. and we too
the trolley car to his home. II is Il hi.
: ~neighborless cottage on Il hill surrount
cd by a hundred mountains. We got o
at his little private station, wher