"Ah!" said I, replacing the dollar in my pocket. "Thank you for your care of it, Memnon. No offence, I hope?"
"None at all, sir," he replied, again showing his wonderful ivory teeth. "I don't take offence at anything so trifling. Had you handed me a billion dollars, I should have declined to wait on you."
And he bowed me away in a fashion which made me feel keenly the narrowness of my escape.
VII
Æsculapius, M.D.
We had not gone very far along when the pain in my side became poignant and I called out of the window to Sambo:
"Sammy, is there a doctor anywhere on the way out to the Zoo?" I asked.
"Yassir," he replied, slowing down a trifle. "We gotter go right by de doh ob Dr. Skilapius."