Pretty Soon the Ship’s Doctor Came with a Nurse.
It was a little dark, but the doctor said, “You old seney ambion, you have got about the worst case of appendicitis that was ever pulled off on this vessel. Boy, bring me that lantern.”
I hated to do it, because I knew Pa would be discovered, and I delayed bringing the lantern as long as I could, but, turning the wick down, but the doctor snatched a match so he could see Pa’s stomach, and then he said, “Say, old skate, you are no more nigger king than I am; you are a white man blacked up;” and the trained nurse said, “The ’ell you say,” and then I got the lantern and they looked at Pa’s white skin, and the doctor asked Pa what he had to say for himself, and Pa admitted that he was a white man, but said he had many of the estimable qualities of a nigger, but that he was traveling incog, to throw his enemies off the track, and then Pa fainted away from the pain, and the cowboy got sober enough to wake up and take notice, and we told the doctor who we were, and how we had escaped from negro tribes and draw poker sharps and officers of the law, and the cowboy fell in love at first sight with the trained nurse, and then Pa came to, with the aid of a bucket of water and some whiskey, and the storm went down, and the doctor said Pa would have to have an operation performed to remove his appendix, and Pa kicked about it, but they took him to the ship’s hospital, with the cowboy for an assistant nurse, and I was left alone in our state room, the only king there was left, and when I washed off my burnt cork I was so white and pale that they gave me medicine, and the trained nurse held me on her lap and sang English songs to me, with all the h’s left out, and every day she told me how they removed Pa’s appendix, and it was swollen up bigger than a weiner sausage, but that he would live all right, and when he got well enough the captain would put Pa in irons for passing himself off for a nigger king, and that he would probably be transported for life, if he couldn’t raise the price of a ransom. And there you are.
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