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left Sumatra 1 was traveling through b At|natives of Palembang—and me—with ! Part 4—8 Pages MAGAZINE SECTION The Sy Stad H FEATURES I b WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1921. Stratagems and Spoils in Trapping Wild Animals in the Jungle By Charles Mayer. HE entire population of Palem- bang came to marvel at the size of the python, and, be- fore I realized it, 1 had ac- quired a wonderful and widespread reputation as a collector. I was soon besieged by requests to go out and capture all kinds of enormous ani- mals—most of them imaginary, of course, for a Malay can imagine any- thing. Once he starts with “Sahya fikir (I think),” you may expect to hear many wonderful tales if you bave time to stop- and listen to him. To Malays nothing seems impossi- ble, and it is difficult to hold them down to actual facts. They will hedge about with “I think” and “barang-kali (perhaps)” until you give up in disgust; and then they will offer to bring their brothers or other| relatives, who will repeat the per- formance. Sometimes I used to spend hours in wondering how their minds work, and I came to the conclusion that they talk merely with a desire to please. They want to tell anything you want to hear, regardless of Whether it is true or not. It is exas- perating and occasionally funny. For_instance, several years after I the jungle looking for elephants. one ‘village I talked with the Malay headman, who represented the gov ernment in that locality, and the con-! versation turned to large elephants.| Jumbo, who was eleven feet two inches, had died, and I had it in my mind that I should like to find an animal big enough to take his place. “Have you ever seen a twelve-foot elephant?” I asked the headman. And as quick as a flash he answered, “How many do you want?” He could not understand why I rolled back on the floor and laughed until my jaws ached. The headman was a true Malay. I found it best, in_trying to get Information from "a Malay to ask my_question and then, before he had ® chance to speak, say: “Jangan fikir jawab ya tidak. Sahya bulih fikir. (Don’t think—answer ves or no. Ll do the thinking).” Then he would generally admit immediately that he didn't know, but he would always offer to bring his brother or some other person that he thought might know. It is a trait that makes busi- ness relations between the whites and the natives difficult, and is to a large far better than the average white man who goes to work in the archi- pelago. For the most part the whites make no_effort to understand them and are thus largely responsible for the troubles that arise. In recent vears the attitude of the colonial kovernments has changed for the bet- ter and there have been fewer disturbances. * x x x HE natives came to have conf- dence in me, especially after the capture of the python, and accepted me as a friend. Often during the evening, when the hadji and I sat talking on his veranda, thirty or forty natives would squat near us, listening to the conversation. If the hadji or I cracked a joke they would laugh uproariously—not that they understood what had been said, but simply Because they wanted to do the proper thing. The hadji's nephew, Ali, became my devoted servant. He was about twenty yvears old, and far more intel- ligent than the average; also he was brave and resourceful—gualities that made him my most valuable aid until he was killed during one of our ex- peditions several years later. When I went to Singapore with the python I took Ali with me, and for ~weeks after he entertained _the his stories of what he had seen and done. It was an excellent example of the feats that Malay imagination can perform. In Cross, of Liverpool, of whom 1 have! spoken, and sold the snake to him for $300 (Mexican), which was consid- ered a banner price. I was glad to have the opportunity of making my- self known to the agent, because I foresaw future commissions. He, like many others, was tired of doing busi- ness with Mahommed Ariff, who took every possible advantage of his cus- tomers, and he was pleased to find a| white man in the fleld of collecting. ‘We recrated the python and shipped him off to Liverpool, after feeding him twelve ducks each day for five days. With that stomachful he could last out the entire voyage and arrive in England with a good appetite. It was difficult to get the Malays from the coast to go up into the jungle. They fear it and have super- stitions about the hantu that live there. Most of the men refused point-blank when I asked them to ac- company me, and others thought of various things they had to do at degree responsible for the fact that much of the business in the archi- elago is done through the Chinese. e Chinese have sufficient patience and understanding to deal with the Malays, and they know how to make them work. *x % HERE are two distinct classes of Malay—the Orong Ulu, living in the jungle, and the Orang Laut, liv- Ing on the coast. Through their as- sociation with the Chinese merchants some of the latter develop into clever dealers, but for the most part they| are content to spend their lives in loafing. They work when they need money, but they need so little of it that they can afford to idle along through life. When the supply of| food runs low they put out in their| boats at daybreak and return at sun- down with fish. These are sorted and | Xy THE BOY WAS TREWS! Palembang. All was willing, how- ever, and he developed into an expert jungle man. Boatmen from the coast poled us up the rivers, but they re- turned to the coast immediately be- cause they were unwilling to remain away from their families. It was after my return to Palem- bang that I became acquainted with the inland of Sumatra and with the Orang Ulu, who are quite different from their brothers on the coast. They are more industrious and have not lost their simplicity and honesty by coming into contact with Chinese business methods. They received us kindly and I had no difficulty in mak- ing friends with them. During the next year I spent much of my time inland in hunting and fishing, and I discovered that Sumatra was not the fleld for collecting that I had expect- ed it to be. But it served my pur- poses of learning the language and becoming acquainted with the people i before Singapore I found an agent of|the trigger he closed his eyes and ECOND Article of Interesting Series Deals With Life in the Waste Places—A Day’s Routine in Palembang—The Malays and Their Games — Selling the | | Python—Revolutionary Guns in Hands of the Natives—Spear Throwing—Some | Facts About Elephants—The Incident of the Leper—A Business Arrangement With ‘ | Mahommed Ariff—Off for an Exciting Elephant .Hunt. T Al was in- cook and storekeeper. they tensely Jealous of him but worked well together. * ok x * HOUGH the natives made a sport of spear-throwing they had given over that method of hunting. They were armed with guns that I honestly believe dated back to’revo- lutionary times—old muzzle-loading flintlocks. Where they got them I have never been able to discover. They were fascinated by my 50-110, of course, and when All cleaned it they squatted about him wide eyed. Whenever I saw a native about to shoot his old muzzle-loader I velled to him to wait until I got well behind because the thing sometimes ex- ploded. It was a wonder to me that it didn’t always explode. Except when he was after small game, a native loaded his gun nearly to thé end of the muzzle with powder putting in the wads and a huge slug of metal. When he pulled flinched because the recoil always knocked him flat. But he expected that and cheerfully picked himself up from the ground with the question, “Did T hit it?" And often he did hit it—if the barrel did not explode. 1 have seen some of the natives with ordinary iron pipe fitted on their guns to replace the barrels that had not been able to stand the strain. I learned in the jungle that the hunter must always be on the lookout for the unexpected. At first it was difficult for me to distinguish between | all the sights and sounds and_to in- terpret each of them, but I soon learned under the tuition c7 the na- tives. One great danger came from the leopards, both spotted and black, who lie along the limbs of trees and spring without warning. A tiger slinks away when disturbed in the daytime, but a leopard almost always stands his ground and springs as one passes beneath him. And he can do more biting and scratching' in one minute than a tiger can in three or four minutes. Ali's alertness saved me one day from a terrible mauling, if not from death. We were breaking through the jungle on our way to some traps; Ali ‘shouted and pushed me to one side, shoving my gun into my hands. 1 looked up, setting my gun, just as a black leopard sprang. Ali's spear whizzed by my head. I fired, catching{ the animal in midair squarely in the| chest with an_explo: bullet. Ali's spear hit him in the side. I took it as a good lesson in carefulness. It was well enough to be on the alert for the animal I was trailing, but it was also important to be on the alert for the animal that might be trailing me. A favorite native method of hunting is with birdlime, which is a mucilage made from the gum of a tree. In catching tigers or leopards the hunter spreads out the birdlime where they will pass and carefully covers it with @ WITH FRIGHT. I ORDERED HIM TO BAR THE DOORS AND WINDOWS AND, ‘WITH MY GUNS LOADED AND READY, I SAT THERE WAITING. feft to dry. afterward sorted again,| Aceording to their markct value, and| #old to the Chinese, who ship them in| palmleat baskets to Singapore. | |, Then the Malays have finished their| work for another month or so. Often | the merchant advances money for| future delivery. and the Malays find| themselves obliged to work for long| periods to keep from being punished | for debt. That is a favorite method of making them work. They consider themselves gentlemen and despise the| Chfnese as pig-eating heathens. If| they must submit to working for the| Chinese merchants they have the sat- | isfaction of watching the coolies do most of the hard labor while they| spend their days at games. | The day's routine while I stayed in Palembang with the old hadjl was simple and pleasant. I him and his first wife—he had three ‘others. We rose early and went for & swim In the river, and then, squat- ting on the floor and eating with our fingers, we breakfasted on fish and rice. After breakfast the hadji and I. would stretch out on our mats and smoke and talk until my servant came to prepare my lunch. A Malay eats but two meals a day—always rice and fish—but I found that two weren't enough for me. After lunch 1 slept through the heat of the day. with the thermometer climbing up t about 125°. Then, when evening came, Palembang stirred into life. The Malays liked games and they were continually after me to show them some new kind of kindergarten pastime. It made no difference whether it was tag or diving into buckets of treacle after money: if it was a game they liked it. Some of them knew how to play chess and they gave whole days and nights to They are especially fond of gam- g. and they repeatedly lose all their money and borrow from the kind merchant. with the result that to make good their debts they spend weeks in fishing. Occasionally 1 went to the Dutch guarter to seek a few hours of com- panionship with white people, but I got _little satisfaction out of these visits because I could speak better Malay than Dutch, and at Palembang there were few people who knew English. The white people could not understand why 1 preferred living with the natives, and some of them looked down on me for it. However, that fact did not trouble me, because I knew what I wanted and I was on «the way to getting it. With the hadji I learned the Malay language rapidly, ARd betore Jopg 1 knew, the nativea quite as well as any other part of the archipelago would have done; and 1 was too busy studying jungle craft from the Orang Ulu to think of leaving. Ali, who was always with me, was an invaluable aid. He was a first-rate spear thrower, but he wanted to be a good shot. He took great pride in my 50-110 express gun, which he carried behind me. Malays—he was always busy. And he spent a great deal of his energy in cleaning and polishing the gun, hop- ing for the great reward of being al- lowed to shoot it. Eventually he be- came a good marksman. The other servant who accompanied me on my trips into the jungle was a Chinese coolie. He had been my rikasha boy and I promoted him to the position of lived with | AFTER THE DYNAMITE He had a trait peculiar in' leaves. Immediately after a cat ani- | mal has put his foot in the stuff he | becomes so enraged and helpless that he 4s easily captured. It is very much like putting butter on a house cat's paws to keep him busy until he becomes accustomed to |a new home. The tiger or leopard that steps in birdlime doesn't step| gracefully out of it and run away; he tries to bite the stuff from his feet! and then he gets it on his face. When he tries to rub it off, he plasters it over his eyes. Finally, when he is thoroughly covered with it, he Is so helpless that without much danger he can be put into a cage, and there he spends weeks in working patiently to remove the gum from his fur. Birds and monkeys are captured in birdlime smeared on the limbs of trees; they DROPPED INTO THE STREAM, THE NATIVES RUSH OFF, SOME OF THEM IN BOATS AND SOME SWIMMING. TO CQlCT THE FISH THAT OOME TO THE SURFACE, i I LOOKED UP JUST AS A BLACK LEOPARD SPRANG AT US. HITTING THE ANIMAL IN THE SIDE. I FIRED, CATCHING HIM IN MID-AIR SQUARELY IN THE CHEST WITH AN EXPLOSIVE BULLET. stay in it until some one goes up and pulls them out. R ANO‘H-IER way of capturing small monkeys {s by means of a sweet- ened rag in a bottle. The bottle is covered with green rattan and tied to a tree. The monkey puts his hand through the neck and grabs the rag. He cannot pull his hand out while it is doubled up with the rag in it and he hasn't sense enough to let gc, ‘There he sticks, fighting with the bottle, until the hunter comes along, and, by pressing the nerves in hic elbow, forces him to open his han¢ and leave the rag for the nex monkey.’ ‘We snared and trapped many smali animals and occasionally built pit- traps for tapirs. The natives some- times used pits for marsh elephants, but I have never seen elephants cap- tured in them without being injured They are so heavy that they hurt themselves in falling. The marsh elephants in Sumatra are not worth the trouble of captur- ing, since they are weaker, shorter lived and less intelligent than the other breeds. They bring a low price, and consequently only the bablies, which can be handled and transported easily, ever reach the market. The usual procedure among the natives is to shoot the mother and take the baby. It is little like the real game of elephant hunting as I found it later in Trengganu and Siam. Dynamiting for fish is a great sport among the Malays. It is done, of course, with the maximum chatter and excitement. The natives line the banks of the stream while the dyna- mite is dropped; then they rush off, some in boats and some of them 1 v AL swimming, to collect the fish that come to the surface. Drugging fish is another method of capturing _them wholesale without much trouble or work. For this pur- pose the natives use a mixture of lime and the sap from the roots of a tuba tree. They first warn the vil- lages downstream so that the people wiil not drink any of the water; then they pour out the white liquid. It spreads over the stream, making the | 'S SPEAR WHIZZED BY M\ HEAD, proficient in patching up people. They believed that most ailments could be! cured by their own doctors, who heal by magic, but they were glad to h: me prescribe for them when magic failed to work. * % ¥ % TTHE Malay doctor is supposed to be favored by a spirit, and a batu bintang while he sleeps. (star stone) is given to him In other words, he is not bring him some new remedy f his dise: Since he had a lar household of servants who took care T |of him and his own carriages and rikshas when he traveled, he wis allowed to live untroubled by the authorities, but he was very unhappy, because he had tried all the remedic of the native doctors and was steadily growing worse. At last I told him that I had something that might help. He asked me what it was but I would not tell him. When he insisted 1 answered, “Snakes.” “Uh-la”’ he exclaimed, waving his arms in the air. Then I explained my theory. The ability of a snake to shed his skin might be transferred to a human being if he ate snakes; and if so, the person would be able to shed his leprosy. Ong Si Chou did not care for the idea at all, but I told him it was worth trying and 1 argue that a snake is much cleaner than an eel. At last he consented, and 1 fur- nished him with a number of small pythons, with the instructions that they were to be killed and cleaned immediately before they were eaten. He was to eat them raw with his rice 1 left Singapore soon after that, and when I returned I found that Ong Si Chou had died. People thought it was a great joke on me because my patient had not survived the treat- ment, but I am far from beéing con- vinced that the cure will not work— or, at least, help to throw off leprosy Ong Si Chou in the last stages of the disease, fair test. i After living eighteen monthe with the Malays in Sumatra I decided that I was well enough equipped to leage and begin the work of collecting wherever I could find the animals 1 wanted. 1 went to Singapore and found that Ariff had been maligning me to his heart's content. 1 called upon him to see what he had to say for himself and he prophesied dismal failure for all my plans. However, 1 engaged passage on a coast steamer going northward, and stopped off at Kalantan, Patani and Singora, in lower Siam. At those places I gathered all the information I could about animals and made my- self known to dealers. 1 wanted to make trips to the interior, but to do so 1 needed a special permit from Bangkok. Instead, 1 made agree- ments with all the dealers that they were to send their animals to me, and arranged with the captains and chinchus of the coast boats for the transportation of the crates. By of- fering to pay the freight and give them a fair share of the profit, I cut off a large part of Ariff’s business. * x kKX O.\' my return to Singapore I found a letter from the director of the Melbourne Zoological Society sug- gesting that T come to Australia with a consignment of animals. A few weeks later I arrived at Melbourne with a black leopard, twenty-five small monkeys, two small orang- outangs, a pair of civet cats and num- erous other animals. Mr. La Seuf, the director, and his son, who had just been appointed director of the zoo- logical gardens at Perth, met me at the dock. His son bought the entire consignment. was my appointment as agent of the Australian zoological gardens. In re- turn for giving them first call on any animals that came into my hands I was given a retaining fee. The most important part of the agreement was that the animals were to be shipped f. 0. b. Singapore and that I was thus released from all the risks of transportation. It happened too often that animals died aboard ship, after weeks had been spent in capturing them and bringing them to port, and this loss was invariably borne by the dealer. Since the agreement with the Aus- tralian zoological gardens was ex- actly what I wanted I returned to Singapore elated. Ariff was crest- fallen when he heard the news, and he became more crestfallen when I called on him and told him about the commission I had received from vari-| our societies in Australia. I did not want to have him as an enemy, and 1 foresaw that there would be war be-| tween us unless we came to some sort of terms. Conseguently, I told him that I wanted to work with him, and that we could do a great deal of busi- ness together if he would treat me He considered the matter for , and then, when he saw that 1 ‘ SINCE THE MONKEY CANNOT PULL HIS HAND OUT OF THE BOTTLE. WHILE IT IS DOUBLED UP, AND HE HASN'T ENOUGH SENSE TO TER COMES ALONG. fish mabok (drupk), as say. They rise to the surface and are gathered into boats. Except for such annoyances as in- sects and leeches, which fastened on my skin as I walked through the jungle, those days in Sumatra were delightful. We hunted, fished and played games; there was nothing to worry about and little work to do. 1 was accepted by the natives as one of them. I wore a sarong over my trousers, and I shouldn’t have worn the trousers if my skin had not been S0 sensitive to the insects. And, of course, I had shoes—the great barrier between castes. The Malays of the coast towns sometimes_but not often, wear shoes, and even then it is more a matter of showing off than of being comfortable. I did everything possi- ble to mininiize the differences be- tween us because I wanted to know them as they were, not as they thought I wanted them to be. They rapidly lost their self-consciousness and treated me simply as a compan- ion who knew more than they knew— and who had a wonderful gun and a kit of medicine. In jungle countries white men are always supposed to possess great knowledge of medicines and curing, and I was often called upon to act as doctor. At first the Malays showed some hesitancy at _accepting the orang puteh ubat (the white man’s medicine), but gradually they became less shy. During my cireus days 1 had acquired a knowledge of first aid - the Malays LET GO, HE STICKS THERE UNTIL THE H made and not born a doctor. His batu bintang is just one of the charms with which he effects cures. He has also a batu that is a petrified part of a Sembilan fish. Water in which this has been soaked is given |to the patient to drink or is rubbed on the part affected. Other charms are the batu lintar (thunderbolt), which is rubbed wherever pain is felt; another batu, also a thunderbolt, which is a piece of crystal; a batu that is part of the backbone of some animal, one that is another piece of crystal, and, finally, the pelican stone, This last is the most highly prized of jall. " It secures the magic presence and co-operation of a spirit that dwells in the pelican. When the doc- tor is seeking to enter the spirit world in search of the soul of the sick person this spirit insures to him a swift passage there and back. The crystal stone is_indispensable in dis- covering where the wandering soul of detecting the spirit who is causing the sickness. cures dysentery, consumption. In practicing medicine for the bene- fit of the natives I worked out one theory in regard to leprosy, which is a_ fairly common ailment in the archipelago. I asked myself _ why, since a snake sheds its skin, a_man who_is afflicted with disease should not be able to do the same thing. i In Singapore there was a rich | Chinese leper, known as Ong Si Chou, indigestion and werk, and in the jungle I became quite who asked me repeatedly why I dtd three miles from tie v the sick person is in hiding and for| And the backbone batu' was getting much_higher prices for| animals than he, he decided that I was right. One of my Australian commissions was to secure for the New Gardens at Perth a pair of tigers—male and fe- male and unrelated. 1 sent the word out among animal dealers and shortly after I received a cable from a Cal- cutta dealer named Rutledge asking me to come at once. 1 took the next boat to Calcutta and found that there were two _tigers up-country near | Hazaribaugh, a mica mining district about three hundred miles northwest of Calcutta off the line of the rail- road. I was warned that it was a danger- ous country to go through and that the people were thieves. It was sug- gested to me that I hire a native of the locality to protect me. He would do all the stealing he could, they told me, but he would prevent the others | from stealing. The trip was made with a retinue of | servants, cooks, bearers and runners, each with his own little task. It was my first experience with the caste system, and I _was amazed at the number of people I had to take with me. We traveled by the main road for two hundred miles; then by a branch road to a place called Pachamba. The remainder of the trip was made by ox teams and bearers along the line of the government rest houses erected for the use of officials visiting the country. We stopped at a_rest and his case was not a| The result of this visit] sent the boy on ahead to buy food for us and to get information about the ti Then we engaged one of the local natives to act as guide and guard. I was exhausted by the trip and soon after supper I went to sleep, * x x % FEW hours after dark I was awakened by the most unearthly vell I have ever heard. I jumped up and called the boy I had brought from Calcutta. He was trembling with fright and he said that he didn‘t know what the noise meant. Remem- bering all the tales I had heard about the people of this district, I ordered the boy to bar the doors and windows and to lay out my guns. T was well armed with automatics and revolvers and T prepared for a battle. Present- Iy there came another vell, answered on all sides of us. With my guns loaded and ready, T sat there waliting. Every few minutes the yell was re- peated, and it seemed to be getting closer and closer. At last, however, in spite of it all, I fell asleep, exhausted. | T was awakened In the morning by the cook bringing my breakfast and the jingling of the ankle bells of a |mail runner. who was passing the house on his fifteen mile run. After 1 had finished eating the cook re- turned with the native who had been hired to guard us. The native salaamed and spoke to the boy, who acted as interpre “What is he sayin I asked the ¥s that he is the head watch- man and he wants to know if you |slept well with him watching over ou.” The vells that had kept me up ost of the night were the “All's well” of the watchmen. Much to the amazement of the c and the guard who had come to ihquire after my night's rest, 1 burst out laughing. [ laughed o hard that 1 sat down on the floor and put my head against my knees—I howled. The guard w and told to keep | ther away from house the next night. To this dav. when I think of myself sitting up «ll night, dead tired and fighting off mosquitoes, while my guards became imaginary thieves about to attack me, T laugh. The headman of the village arrived with several natives and I went with them to inspect the tigers—two beau- tifully marked animals. 1 closed the bargain immediately and made ar- rangements to recage the tigers and haul them by ox teams to Calcutta. At Perth the directors of the New Gardens were so pleased with the tigers that they sent me a good bonus for my trouble in securing them. And my story about the thieves of Hazari bagh wis the joke of the year. There came a dearth of good ani- mals at Singapore, and so I deter- mined to go into the state of Treng- ganu to see what luck I should have at collecting. Trengganu was at that time an independent state and had never been thoroughly explored. The sultan who ruled over it was unwill- ing to have white men in the country because he feared that his state {might become a protectorate of one {of the larger powers. *He was wise enough to realize that if a white man entered and committed some such ins | discretion as interfering with one of {the native women the white man would be found with a kris stuck inta him. And the resuit would probably be that the white man's government would send soldiers to depose the sultan and take over the government. He wanted nothing more than to be left alone with his country, and so he made it a law that foreigners were not allowed. en a few rupees s watchmen far- B h * k% % AT Singapore one heard many tales 4L of the wealth of animals In Trengganu, but it was generally con- |ceded that it was impossible for 9 white man to enter the country. For |my part, though I had no idea how to win the sultan to my way of thinking, |1 decided that it would be at least as easy as getting a permit to go inta lower Siam. That would have re- quired interviewing H. H. Prince | Damerong, brother of the King of Siam and minister of the interior, which was no easy matter for o obscure a person as I. Meanwhile the rymor resched us that an immense herd of elephants was crossing from the state of Pahang Into Trengganu, and I made up my mind to act instantly. A roaming herd of elephants is so seri- ous a menace to rice crops that [ thought the sultan might not object to having the assistance of a for- elgner in capturing them. In any ovent, the chance was worth taking. With the German captain of a small coast steamer that called at Treng- ganu every three weeks, I made ar- rangements to drop me there. He protested that it was a senseless un- dertaking; that 1 wouldn't be allowed to land; that, if 1 was allowed to [land, tke sultan would refuse to see me; that, if the sultan granted me an interview, he would surely refuse | to let me go inland: and that, if he allowed me to go inland, T would be killed by the matives. All the way up the coast, T listened to his argu- ments, and. when he asked me if I had changed my mind, I answered, “You just put me down on the beach, blow your whistle and go along.” Weeks later, when he returned and asked about me, the natives replied, “Sir, the master is in the jungle catching elephants.” 1 was on the biggest and most ex- citing elephant hunt of my life. Copyright, 1921, by Asia. Mr. Mayer will tell, in the Magazine of next Sun- day’s Star, how he cap- tured a herd of sixty ele- phants in Treugganu. i —_———— Faith. DR SIMON FLEXNER, head of the famous Rockefeller Institute, sald at a dinner in Pfiladelphia: “Don’t be surprised at the faith cures you hear about. Even in legit- imate medicine falth plays a large part. friend of mine treated an old Manayunk woman for typhoid fever. At each visit he put his thermometer in her mouth to take her temperature, She improved, and finally a day came when my friend could dispense with his temperature taking. That day he merely prescribed and departed. “But he hadn't got far from the house when the old woman's daugh- ter ran after him and called him back, other's much worse,' she said. My friend went back to the old woman. She looked at him reproach- fully from her pillow and moaned: “*Doctor. why didn't ye gimme tl jigger under me tongue today? T} good than all the ¥ -~