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Smelfungus, retiring in a hurry, for the tails of his dressing gown and the gas retort of Dr. Skihi were in inconvenient proximity. Dr. Skihi vouchsafed not another word, but with an air of indescribable dignity adjusted the retort, took out a cork and but words fail me to describe the catastrophe! Before Dr.
Skihi with sparkling eyes, "is to get in a convenient posture; allow me to set off this retort of mine behind you " here he produced a "glass concern" from a side pocket, to the horror of his friends "and heigh, presto! you will find yourself flying home like a skyrocket" "And coming down like the stick!" gasped Dr.
Now, what do you think Dr. Smelfungus had really pointed out? Why, a musk-melon patch! and as his companions knew no more than himself, Dr. Skihi scrambled through the hedge without more ado, cut with his penknife as many as he could carry, and returned to his friends.
Sheepshanks if he does not think it would be a good plan for us to take a short trip into the country. No doubt we should make some very important discoveries." Excusing the idea to himself in this way, Dr. Skihi toddled up one pair of stairs and down two pair of stairs, and straight along a crooked corridor, and all round a square hall, until he arrived at the apartments of Dr. Sheepshanks.
It was of no use to run, and as they plodded along in the wet, our philosophers looked at Dr. Van Noostile with faces in which anger and dismay were equally mingled. "Is this your knowledge of weather?" exclaimed Dr. Skihi, in a pet. "Science teaches us that even a child of nature should go in when it rains!" snapped Dr. Sheepshanks.
Skihi now made the most brilliant proposal of anybody. Our good doctor was evidently brimming, one might say creaming, over with the milk of human kindness; beyond a possible doubt he was about to propound a discovery of benefit to the whole world.
Skihi proposed to him that they should go and take a walk, to which he readily agreed. Then they went to Dr. Smelfungus, the great botanist, who was at present trying to graft japonicas on bramble bushes: "It would improve the appearance of the roadside so much!" and Dr.
Skihi, who, catching his friend by the tails of his dressing gown, had him right side up in a hurry, exclaiming, "Crucibles and gasbags! my good sir, have you gone crazy?" "No, indeed," returned Dr. Sheepshanks, with a gleeful laugh. "I have made a discovery, sir a great discovery.
"Too warm! fiddlestick's end!" he cried. "This feeling warm and cold is all humbug. Dr. Skihi can tell you that I went to the top of the house with him every night for a week, last winter, to look at a comet, in nothing but a night gown and an umbrella, and I never was better in my life! Other people might have felt cold, or caught cold; but I I enjoyed the science of the thing!
The sight that caused Dr. Skihi to commit such a breach of good manners was Dr. Sheepshanks in the very middle of a summersault! with his flowered dressing gown about his ears and his spindle shanks and black stockings in the air, looking not unlike a two-legged radish growing upside down. To him rushed Dr.
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