THE WEE McKENZIE.

NZ Truth, Issue 180, 28 November 1908, Page 4

THE WEE McKENZIE.

£1000 For His Eyes.

Donald Bain Mackenzie, the perfectly* built, seven foot-two giant drum major of the Kilties Band, has sold his eyes for the sum of £1000 to some society of scientific research m the east, who are demonstrating that the last objects seen by a dying person may be found fixed as a photographic negative upon the retina. Mackenzie has secured thus unusual contract because his eyes are almost a third larger than those of the average man, which will remove from the undertaking many scientific difficulties. No matter when or where Mackenzie dies, arrangements are completed to have the eyes forwarded to the society. If death should come by drowning and the body be not recovered the society loses, for Mackenzie, with a true Scotsman's instinct for a good bargain, has already secured a goodly part of the full amount, and remarks frequently, with much glee, "I'm no takin' ony chances o' lessen in' their interest on the money invested, and have made up mac mind to stan' m the way o' the progress o' science for mony a long year." The Kilties are appearing at the Theatre Royal, and last night were greeted by a record and enthusiastic audience. A "Truth" representative met Mr Mackenzie last night and he greeted him m a foreign language. Our representative informed him that his ancestors used to use that language, hut since his great great grandfather had been pinched for cattle stealing Gaelic was a sore subject with the family. Big Mac. admitted that his ancestors used to pinch cows, too but he explained that it was aii aristocratic recreation m those days. This pap,er doesn't pretend to know about the old days, hut what it does know is that the cow that Mac. couldn't "lift" hasn't yet been grown m this country,.