The White Linen Nurse
The White Linen Nurse By Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Author of "Molly Make-Believe," "The Sick-a-Bed Lady," etc., etc. 1913 TO MAURICE HOWE RICHARDSON WHO LOVED ROMANCE ALMOST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED SURGERY, THIS LITTLE STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED IN TOKEN OF TWO PERSONS' UNFADING MEMORIES THE WHITE LINEN NURSE
She that took the House-wife's place
Lost the nose from off her face.
Take this lesson to thy heart--
Fools for folly suffer smart."
'No!' said Karataka, 'how was it?' Damanaka related:--
THE STORY OF THE PRINCE AND THE PROCURESS
"In the city of 'Golden-Streets' there reigned a valorous King, named
Vira-vikrama, whose officer of justice was one day taking away to
punishment a certain Barber, when he was stopped by a strolling
mendicant, who held him by the skirts, and cried out, 'Punish not this
man--punish them that do wrong of their own knowledge.' Being asked his
meaning, he recited the foregoing verses, and, being still further
questioned, he told this story--
"I am Prince Kandarpa-ketu, son of the King of Ceylon. Walking one day
in my summer-garden, I heard a merchant-captain narrating how that out
at sea, deep under water, on the fourteenth day of the moon, he had seen
what was like nothing but the famous tree of Paradise, and sitting under
it a lady of most lustrous beauty, bedecked with strings of pearls like
Lukshmi herself, reclining, with a lute in her hands, on what appeared
to be a golden couch crusted all over with precious stones. At once I
engaged the captain and his ship, and steered to the spot of which he
The White Linen Nurse By Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Author of "Molly Make-Believe," "The Sick-a-Bed Lady," etc., etc. 1913 TO MAURICE HOWE RICHARDSON WHO LOVED ROMANCE ALMOST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED SURGERY, THIS LITTLE STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED IN TOKEN OF TWO PERSONS' UNFADING MEMORIES THE WHITE LINEN NURSE