But I will tell you what is _not_ the matter with me.

I have not got housemaid's knee.

Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it.

Everything else, however, I _have_ got." And I told him how I came to discover it all.
Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it--a cowardly thing to do, I call it--and immediately afterwards butted me with the side of his head.

After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it.