How A King's Life Was Saved

Once h3 majesty was ill for several. weeks, really ill, seriously at his age. Thedoctors, of course, cameeveryüay, 8ometlme3 twice or more, and they prescribed as usual. Anyone who has been ill for iny lengt h of time, and has been attended in theordinary way once or twice a day by one doctor, will know what various medicines are prescribed, and changed again and under each phaseoíthedisease, and ho would I believe, be astonished to see all the medicines he had drank during his iilness. Anyone may then conceive what a quantity was like to be ordered, and what changos were likely to be rune by a bevy of doctors witn such a precious personage as a kina for apatient. As any bottle or power was brought his majesty said, "Put it in tho cupboard. and apain and again it was '"Put It in the cupboard." Not one drop waa touched. Starving and patience were the only remedies resorted to. At last his aiajesty got his eood turn and began to feel he could eat again with a relish, and by degrees ílung ofl the disorder, whatever it was, which had run its course. His majesty was up and dressed early and at business, "(let all these bottles, powders and pill-boxes out of the cupboard," he said, "and range them in a row round the room." It was a very small room and they almost made a circle round the walls. The doctors came in smirking and aniling and congratulating the king upon being up again and looking ko well. "Yes doctors," said his maiesty, "thank God it is so. But loon there - count it up. Don't j'ou think if I had drank all that stuff I shouldhave