"I've just had the most awful time," said the boy to his friends. "First I got angina pectoris, then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering, I got psoriasis. They gave my hypodermics, and, to top it all, tonsillitis was followed by appendectomy." "Wow! How did you pull through?" asked his friends. "I don't know," the boy replied, continuing, "it was the toughest spelling test I ever had!" |