. Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey . structed earin the room. In spite of all this, each one sat looking andbowing at the other without leaving a chair or ut-tering a clearly audible word, till Sammy and thetwo Sponsies entered. This event was likeuncorking a bottle of lightning, if it were possibleto bottle the subtle fluid and set it free by cuttingthe strings which held down the stopple. TheSponsies were not timid, nor were they fearfulof being detected. They were in for fun wher-ever it could be found, or for mischief, if moreinnocent amu
. Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey . structed earin the room. In spite of all this, each one sat looking andbowing at the other without leaving a chair or ut-tering a clearly audible word, till Sammy and thetwo Sponsies entered. This event was likeuncorking a bottle of lightning, if it were possibleto bottle the subtle fluid and set it free by cuttingthe strings which held down the stopple. TheSponsies were not timid, nor were they fearfulof being detected. They were in for fun wher-ever it could be found, or for mischief, if moreinnocent amusement was not attainable. Theybounded through the parlors as if every one ofthe three thousand nerve filaments of their earsterminated in their feet and toes. Every atmos-pheric wave from the musical instruments filled theirears and moved every nerve and muscle of theiragile bodies. First they went leap-frog across the floorthrough the front to the back parlor and back 144 THE BOY DOCTOR AND again ; a trick that Sammy had taught them atthe very last moment. This brought every one r?. THE DEBUT OF SAMMY AND THE TWO SPONSIES. to his and her feet, and set in motion from everyindividual mouth waves of air which reached thecar in the form of what we call laughter. In THE TROUBLESOME MONKEY. 145 the midst of the latter Sammy issued at theheight of his voice his military commands. Hecould hardly make himself heard above the up-roar, nor would it have been possible for him tohave done so, had Nature been less lavish in sup-plying the ear with nerve filaments with which togather up sounds. But, as Professor Raymondhas said, every shadow of tone has its correspond-ing note in the ear, and becomes in our mind asound. Hence in spite of the music of the fourinstruments and the hilarity of nearly a hundredyoung people who were convulsed with laughter,or, in scientific terms, in the midst of the greatestmixture of air waves falling upon the ear from allpossible directions, the words of comma
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