Suffering

During a very inclement season all the members of a certain family in Dunfermline, save one, were at the same time troubled with rheumatic complaints. The favoured individual who escaped was continually being asked by the others whether he, like them, was
suffering from anything.

At last one of them, having interrogated him as to
wether he had toothache, earache, or some other complaint, and received the usual stolid answer in the negative, lost all patience and exclaimed:

“Can't you have something the matter with you, just to be neighbourly.”

This is the most agreeable view of suffering, we believe, which was ever taken.

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