The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-28
Aunty oxin
By F. A. Mitchell

Sdlh, SdSu LII. w diHi iShI, hSt
night | heard considerable cachling in
my chicken house. l hope you have
not been tempted to-
$50 de Lawd, Mars Doctor. habent
toeked nothin' from 70 chicken house
at ALL
'I'm glad to hear that. Sam, princi-
pally on your account. I'm expert
menting on those chickens, and it
would be dangerous for any one to eat
one Of Them
Sam looked uneasy. "Wha' yo' mean,
Mars Doctor, by sperimentin' on emf
THAT would be difficult for me to
explain to you, but I'll try. Do you
know what an antitoxin isl"
"NO, Mars Doctor, never done heerd
about any woman at all by de name o
Toxin. know Aunty Tucker. but
don't know Aunty Toxin"
"An antitoXin isn't woman, Sam
It's something to be given to head off
disease We put something containing
the germs of the disease into rabbit,
this gives it the disease Then we
take something from the body of the
animal and inject it into the body of
person who has been exposed to the
disease, and this prevents that person
from having the disease. Having no
rabbits or guinea pigs. | have placed
fever germs In one Of the chickens in
my henhouse."
Laws a-massy, Mars Doctor, which
one OBJ de chickens did yo' speriment
onY'
"The little speckled hen"
Sam rolled his eyes about, at last fix
ing them imploringly on the doctor.
Mars Doctor. reckon 1 been ex.
posed to de fever. Can't yo' glib me
some OBJ de antitoxin?"
"What makes you think you have
been exposed to the fever?"
why. Marse Doctor. las night when
l was comm home from de cake walk
l passed by yo' chicken house, an
sor yo' little speckled hen settin' on de
roost. She looked so purity dat
couldn't help putin ma hand in an
smoothin' de feathers"
THAT wouldn't give you the fever,
SAM" said the doctor reassuringly and
with twinkle In his eye. However,
to make sure, I'll look into your blood
and see If any fever has got into
you"
"Yo' look In ma blood, Marse Doc
tor? How yo' do dat?"
did you ever hear of the x ray,
Sam?"
mo, Marse Doctor, neber hearn OBJ
de X ray. Yes, 1 did too; sor pic
lures In a book OBJ mans hand show
in all the bones"
That's 1t. I'm going to look inside
Of you TO see If the fever is there"
The doctor was a specialist, and ev-
! cry one who has ever consulted a spe-
cialist knows that he Is equipped
with devices for looking into every
crevice In the human body. Strap
ping an electric light to his forehead,
he told Sam to open his mouth wide.
Then, putting lens In his own eye,
he held down the darkey's tongue with
an instrument designed for such pur-
pose and looked down his throat
SAM" he said. there's chicken meat
in your stomach"
! Sam turned pale, but said nothing.
"If there was nothing the matter
with the chicken you ate you're all
! right"
! "But supposin'," gasped Sam. dat
/ de chicken had de fevery
! Sam trembled. At the same time he
was thinking of what the doctor had
told him.
"Marse Doctor" he said at last, you
said dat you glib de fever to de chick
en-, didn yo'?"
"Yes."
"An' you glib de chicken to de pus
son wha' hab been exposed to de fe
ver?'
"Yes"
Il was exposed to de fever by
smoothin' de little speckled hens fed
ders. Yo' glib de fever to de littl,
speckled hen; den 20 glib de littl,
speckled hen to me-
you mean, Sam. you took the heI
without asking for her"
"Ennyway, Mars Doctor, | can't ri
de fever, cause why got de anti
toxin"
The doctor surveyed the darky witt
evident amusement
SAM" he said. "there are those VIII
maintain that the negro is inferior in
tellectually to the whites. You hav
proved yourself more than a match 70
me. If your honesty were equal t
your intelligence and your capacity 70
work equal 20 either you would be
homo sapiens."
"Wha' dat, Mars DoctorT
1.-The highest grade of human veins
That will do. Sam. You may GO"
, Sam walked languidly to the dool
but turned. with his hand on tn
knob.
MARS Doctor. air yo' sure satin' d
speckled hen will keep away de feve
wha' yo' glib de hen?"
Not absolutely. Let me know
you don't feel we'll"
Sam went out, but in an hour return
cd In n had fright