Oh, So Sick! (1910)
Mrs. Watt receives a message from the president of the Zulu Missionary Society, of which she is a member, that she and Mr. Watt are invited to attend an important meeting of the society that afternoon. Dr. Moon, the missionary, just lately returned from his work in the field, is to lecture on "How to Reach the Savage Heart." There are to be other prominent speakers, and Mrs. Watt is in quite a flurry of expectation. But Watt looks gloomy. "O, hang the Zulus!" He exclaims. "John Watt!" from his better half, "You shall attend that meeting this afternoon and don't try to worm out of it." Watt immediately sets his brain working and finally concocts a most plausible excuse. He pleads sick and when the hour arrives for their departure, he is moaning and writhing in utter agony, while his wife departs for the meeting, not a little skeptical as to the genuineness of her husband's suffering. Immediately after she leaves Watt cracks his heels together, jumps into his coat and hat and goes out to hunt up "the boys." An hour later finds four or five of them gathered about the Watt dining table, smoking, drinking and playing poker. They are in the midst of it when the bell rings and Mrs. Watt asks to be admitted. She has missed her train. In a quandary Watt turns to his friends, wondering how to get rid of them. A lucky thought strikes him. He hunts up a number of old frock coats and battered silk hats and presses his friends into service as "physicians." When Mrs. Watt is admitted she finds four doctors around John's bedside, all very apprehensive about poor John's condition. One prescribes cod liver oil and sends Mrs. Watt out to the medicine chest to fetch it. It is then that Mrs. Watt discovers the trick when she finds the poker chips, siphon bottle and the real duds of the "physicians." Immediately she routs out the surprised M.D.'s. and prepares to give John the medicine as prescribed by "Dr. Sawbones." "One pint bottle of cod liver oil every three hours." It is needless to say that John was cured and that he will attend the next society's meeting without a murmur.
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