THE MAGIC SHIRT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 138, 14 June 1930, Page 18

THE MAGIC SHIRT

, The king was ill—at least he said he , was. Doctors came from far and near ' to try and cure him, but none siiceeed--1 cd. Onoday two doctors came to see , him. One was a studious, hard: work- ; ing man; the other had never looked t at a medical book in his life, and never , cared if his patients got well or died. , If a patient got better, ho was well . paid, and if he died his heirs paid double. They thumped the king's chest till '■ he was out of breath. Then the learned one said: "You:are as sound as a nut!" "Cheek and impudence! Hang him up!" yelled the king in a rage. The other said that if the king slept one night in the shirt of a happy man \ he would get better. The king sent courtiers far and near to try and find a really happy man. In their wanderings they came across two men Weeping.- One- was crying because , his wife had died, and the other was crying because his hadn't. At last, after many weary months of travelling, they , came across a beggar rolling''On the grass, gurgling with laughter. "Are you nappy?" asked one of tho courtiers, politely. "Of course I. am nothing but happy,'' he laughed! "Could you lend ,us your shirt, kind sir?" they asked.. "Ha, ha, ha I I haven't got a shirt. What a joke! What a joke!" When the king heard =of all the people's sorrows he though of how he could help tho people. Through thinking of tho sorrows of. other people he forgot him whims and fancies, and soon' got better. Sent in by _ SOLEMN SAL. Kelburn.