But not for medicine—though coloured red.
"So, Doctor, when we're by ourselves alone,
Don't try to put on 'side' with me, good lack,
For I can surely track
Full many a 'fatal case' you'd fain disown.
And I can tell aright why you should groan
When harmless ducks in passing cry 'Quack! Quack!'
* * *
The Doctor woke. "Dear me!" said he,
"This skeleton's too wise