A Sick Savage

Poor Misi Folo - you remernber the thin boy, do you not? - had a desperate attack of influenza, and he was in a great taking. You would not like to be very sick in some savage place in the islands and have only the savages to doctor you? Well, that waa just the way he feit. "It is all very well," he thought, "to let these childish white people doctor a sore foot or a toothache, bnt this is serious - I might die of this! For goodness' sake, let me get away in, to a drafty nativo house where I can lie in cold gravel, eat green bananas and have a real grown up, tattooed man to raise spirits and say charms over me. " A day or two we kept him quiet and got him much better. Then he said he must go. He had had his back broken in his own island, he said. lt had come broken again, and he must go away to a native house and have itmended. "Confonnd your back, " said we. "Lie down in your bed. " At last one day his f ever was quite gone, and he could give his mind to the broken back entirely. He lay in the hall. I was in the room alone. All morning and noon Í heard him roaring like a bnll calf, so that the floor sbookwith it. It wasplainly hnmbng. It had the humbngging sound of a bad ch'ild crying, and about 2 of the afternoon we were worn out and told him hemigbtgo. Off he set. He was in some kind of a white wrapping, with a great white turban on his head, as pale as clay, and walked leaning on a stick. But, oh, he was a glad boy to get away from these foolish, savage, childish white peopie and get his broken back put right by somebody with some sense. He nearly died that night, and little wonder, but he has now got better again, and long may it lastl All the others were quite good, trusted us wholly, and staid to be cured where they were. But then bewas quite right if you look at it from his point of view, for, though we may be very clever, we do not set up to cure broken backs. If a man has his back broken, we white people can do nothing at all but bury him. And was he not wise, since that was his complaint, to go to folks who