128 THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 



an hour, without talking ; if you can get as excited 

 watching two tumble-bugs trying to roll their ball 

 up hill, as you do watching nine baseball men try- 

 ing to bat their ball about a field." 



The doctor pulled a small blankbook out of his vest 

 pocket, scribbled something in Latin and Chinese (at 

 least it looked like Chinese), and then at the bottom 

 wrote in English, "Take one teaspoonful every 

 hour " ; and, tearing off the leaf, handed it to the 

 patient. It was a prescription for some sort of med- 

 icine. 



Now I am going to give you a prescription, for 

 some woods medicine, a magic dose that will cure 

 you of blindness and deafness and clumsy-footed- 

 ness, that will cause you to see things and hear 

 things and think things in the woods that you have 

 never thought or heard or seen in the woods before. 

 Here is the prescription : 



WOOD CHUCK, M. D., 



MULLEIN HILL. 

 Office Hours : 

 5.30 A.M. until Breakfast. 



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No moving for one hour . . . 

 No talking for one hour . . . 

 No dreaming or thumb-twiddling the while . , . 



Sig: The dose to be taken from the top of a stump with 

 a bit of sassafras bark or a nip of Indian turnip 

 every time you go into the woods. 



WOOD CHUCK. 



