THE TWELFTH CHAPTER MEDICINE AND MAGIC VERY, very quietly, making
sure that no one should see her, Polynesia then slipped out at the back
of the tree and flew across to the prison. She found Gub-Gub poking his
nose through the bars of the window, trying to sniff the cooking-smells
that came
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from the palace- kitchen. She told the pig to bring the Doctor to the
window because she wanted to speak to him. So Gub-Gub went and woke the
Doctor who was taking a nap. "Listen," whispered the parrot, when John
Dolittle's face appeared: "Prince Bumpo is coming here to-night to see
you. And you've got to find some way to turn him white. But be sure to
make him promise you first that he will open the prison-door and find a
ship for you to cross the sea in." "This is all very well," said the
Doctor. "But it isn't so easy to turn a black man white. You speak as
though he were a dress to be re- dyed. It's not so simple.
Yes sir, I reached the Gulf of Mexico and I walked right into it and
drowned myself.
I did it gratis. When they fished the corpse out they found it was
marked F.O.B. Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn; it was returned C.O.D. When I was
asked later why I had killed myself I could only think to say - because
I wanted
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to electrify the cosmos! I meant by that a very simple thing -The
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western had been electrified, the Seaboard Air
Line had been electrified, but the soul of man was still in the covered
wagon stage. I was born in the midst of civilization and I accepted it
very naturally - what else was there to do? But the joke was that nobody
else was taking it seriously. I was the only man in the community who
was truly civilized. There was no place for me - as yet.
And yet the books I read, the music I heard assured me, that there
were other men in the world like myself.
packing their things and sailing for Nagasaki, and he was not at all
sure how much longer his preferences could expect to take precedence
over those of his sister and parents. Things were very much in the
balance, and any displeasure he incurred - any misdemeanour, any falling
off of his schoolwork - could tip the scales against him. Hence his
supposition that a small tear
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in a kimono sleeve might easily produce the gravest of consequences. As
it turned out, the torn kimono did not incur his parents' wrath nearly
to the extent feared, and certainly nothing momentous came of the
matter. But throughout those months following his return, there would
come along one little mishap after another to plunge my friend back into
his pit of worry and despondency. The most significant of these, I
suppose, was the affair concerning Ling Tien and our 'robbery' - the
'crime from my past' which so aroused Sarah's curiosity during our bus
ride this afternoon.
