CURING A TENOR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1892, Page 4

CURING A TENOR.

Tub company was m Havana, and at & ?ritical juncture m the manager's affairs Brignoli took it into his head that it would >c the swell thing to fall sick. The Marquis le Aquas Cearas, president of the AyunUmiento, sent a doctor to visit the disSnguiabed tenor, and to report tne result of . iis investigations. Unable to discover aay . Uanningsynjptoinsexcept an Insatiable appefte for macaroni and a sentimental longuij br a dokefar menu, the gentlemanly young lector ordered Brignoli to take a substantial [inner and m the evening a drivi to tb« •pcra, and to sing his part m the 0102) nanner, and predicted to him a fall restoration of health by following his advice. «► » The silver-voiced tenor shared the doctor's (pinion as to tbe prescription •of a r good { iinner. but demurred from the order of tinging m tbe evening. A magistrate ■whom ihe president had consulted, upon hearing :he doctor's report, sent a gentle warning to ' Brignoli, who, however, answered that tb« 3octcr who had visited him seemed, likt Srispino, to be mote a cobbler than & Socjpr, and did not understand bis illnss^ whereupon the magistrate despatched toother doctor from tbe military hospitaj, *itb two attendants. "»-* r~* After having felt Brignoli's pulse, looked into his throat, and examined his eyes, the aew doctor solemnly declared, with a sbfiks Dfhishead— — *r~ *.» ' " Really, some preenrsory symptoass 0? yellow fever," bat added that by employing 200 leeches immediately on the shoulders of the patient, the great evil might be averted. < "Mama mial" screamed Brignoli, with 1 his clear, beautiful tenor voice, reaching . with ease on that occasion the high B, •• two hundred leeches! Yon are an Idiot, but oot It doctor! lam perfectly well t' 1 — •> "No," replied the doctor, "you are ill, and cannot sing to-night," giving at the ' same time instructions to his attendants for the operation. v v * " Clear out," vociferated ßrigaoll, •• I will show you whether and how I can *|pg this eveniog. And ha did siag, bette? than evtf .