24/33 The ill-conditioned think all things awry, and the whole world out-of-joint. The little girl in PUNCH, who found her doll stuffed with bran, and forthwith declared everything to be hollow and wanted to "go into a nunnery," had her counterpart in real life. Many full-grown people are quite as morbidly unreasonable. There are those who may be said to "enjoy bad health;" they regard it as a sort of property. They can speak of "MY headache"-- "MY backache," and so forth, until in course of time it becomes their most cherished possession. |