. Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey . CHAPTER III. SAMMY AT HIS CHORES—THE INVITATION TO AMASKED PARTY—SAMMY AND HIS TWO MON-KEYS WANTED TO MAKE SPORT—SPONSIENUMBER 2 AS A SOLDIER—PHILOSOPHY OFMEMORY—TALK ABOUT THE BRAIN—SPONSIENUMBER I BLOWING THE HORN FOR SAMMY. OTWITHSTAND I N G the late hour at whichour young lecturer re-tired last night, he is onhand before six oclockthis morning attendingto his usual duties at thehouse of his one unaccustomed toseeing what is calledmenial labor performedby one who is capableof interestin an
. Science in story. Sammy Tubbs, the boy doctor, and "Sponsie," the troublesome monkey . CHAPTER III. SAMMY AT HIS CHORES—THE INVITATION TO AMASKED PARTY—SAMMY AND HIS TWO MON-KEYS WANTED TO MAKE SPORT—SPONSIENUMBER 2 AS A SOLDIER—PHILOSOPHY OFMEMORY—TALK ABOUT THE BRAIN—SPONSIENUMBER I BLOWING THE HORN FOR SAMMY. OTWITHSTAND I N G the late hour at whichour young lecturer re-tired last night, he is onhand before six oclockthis morning attendingto his usual duties at thehouse of his one unaccustomed toseeing what is calledmenial labor performedby one who is capableof interestin an audi-. ence in a lecture on so difficult a subject as thebrain, it would have looked strangely to see the THE TROUBLESOME MONKEY. 49 precocious Sammy sweeping the walk and brush-ing his employers boots. A young olive-eyedGerman, of white skin and small brain, who occu-pied the same position before Sammy, left it indisgust because, as he said with a curled lip, inbroken English, I vosh no little poy to prush thevalk and sweep the boots ! But in this fortunatecountry, where freedom was born before a dozennests of kings were hatched to lay claims andcounter-claims to the divine right to make lawsand customs for the people, as in France and Spain,many of our greatest men began life in the fieldor work-shop, and in the performance of dutiesmistakenly called menial. With such humble be-ginnings they had no false pride to hinder theirfootsteps as they patiently ascended the ladder ofambition to honorable fame. Many, trying toevade the lower rounds, lose their foothold, and,falling, unsuccessfully s
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