THE FRANK DOCTOR IN GREECE. 575 



" What have you ?" said Captain Kitso, " why seek you a doctor ? " 

 " Alas !" responded Barba Nako, " I am unable : I am but a burnt 

 man ; for I have an imposthume in my leg." " What doctor sought 

 ye ? He who fled in a bowl o Yarns o trelos, Yani the mad, who 

 would take neither money nor goods in payment for his medicine ?" 

 " The same/' said Nako, " a great GAIDOUSI, but a wonderful doctor. 

 O adelphe mou, my brother, my eyes, my soul ! tell me where I shall 

 find him, and I will bless thy father, mother, and sisters, to the day 

 of my death." By the holy mass," said the soldier, " that will I. 

 The sea thieves took him off. Hydra and heaven ! he had no money : 

 they cut off his head, and buried him in the deep sea ; but he was 

 but a Frank dog." Oh Virgin ! Virgin ! Holy Virgin !" ejaculated 

 Barba Nako, " why hast thou suffered these sea cuckolds to kill a 

 Frank doctor ? May their ship sink, may their sisters be sent into 

 bondage ! Where shall I find a man to cure the imposthume which 

 is in my leg ? " 



" Phile mou, good friend," said I, offering my tobacco pouch, " will 

 you drink a pipe of my smoke, and I will tell you a word." " I am 

 yoxir servant," said he ; (< what word will you tell me ?" ft I will 

 tell you," said I, mysteriously, " that I can raise up this dead Frank 

 doctor you were talking of. Nay, say but you would have him, and 

 he shall be here at your very elbow, as close to you as I am." " Saint 

 Dionysius forbid !" said he, as soon as he could speak. " No, 

 no; no dead doctors. I was etsi ketsi, so so, half afraid of him when 

 he was alive ; but dead and here Ma to stavro ! Ma teen beesti ! 

 (By the cross ! by my faith !) But holy and blessed Virgin ! you little 

 cuckolds, you Franks, you tell such lies." " Silence,' said I, cur- 

 ling up my moustaches. if Pardon me," said Barba Nako, " I had 

 forgot that you Franks get angry if one does but say you lie. But, 

 by the purity of the Virgin, your smoke is most excellent Sirian, as I 

 judge, and truly of a good flavour. Have you much of it ? What did 

 it cost ? Where did you get it ? Where do you come from ?" " All 

 this," said I, " and more, thou shalt know another time ; but touch- 

 ing thine imposthuuie, if thou hast a mind to be cured, be over 

 against the great plane-tree in the square to-morrow at sunset, and 

 there thou shalt see his brilliancy, Yanis the Frank doctor ; for none 

 but he shall make thee a sound man : and so," added I, touching the 

 tip of my chin, my forehead, and then placing my hand upon my 

 heart, " I wish you a good evening." " Fear me riot, I am your 

 slave. I worship you. May your years be many. Go in peace, and 

 a good sunrise to you." 



Further, it is only necessary to say, that Barba Nako kept his ap- 

 pointment, and that he is to be found to this day, in the city where 

 king Otho holds his court, sitting in the coffee-houses, and telling 

 how he was cured of his imposthume by a dead Frank doctor. 



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