No Respecter of Persons.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 16 July 1903, Page 11

No Respecter of Persons.

Once when the father of the young Queen of Holland wu ill he sent for Professor Rastenstein, one of the court physicians, who examined into the condition of the monarch, felt his pulse and took his temperature, and~ended by saying : ' Now let me see your tongue.' King William, though grievously ill, waxed wroth. 1 1 am your king,' he paid. ' You have no business to order me to put out my tongue as if I was a common patient. I won't do it. Request me to do so in a polite way and I'll consider it.' 1 You may be a king,' answerd the doctor, ' but you are my patient and lam your physioian. I did not come here to oonsider your rank ; I came to help yon to get well. Good morning I ' And, taking his hat, he Vent home in high dudgeon. An hoar after that he was sent for Again. ' I won't go a step,' he said ; and would not stir an inch until the Queen herself went to him and begged him to help her husband. When he entered the King's bedroom that monarch, having recovered his temper, at once opened his mouth and protruded nil unruly tongue ; and, Bays one who has recorded this incident fox Hi, , the doctor returned the compliment by saving the King's life.'