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"Hello, Uncle Abel! Here's me! Here's your little ray of sunshine. Aunt Hetty sprung a C. Q. D. at me over the telephone and said she had to go to a meeting of some Hen's Club or other, and would I come around here and sit with you. So I came just as soon as I could skittle over. You poor dear, are you awfully tired of staying in the house? Well, I suppose gout is annoying. Why don't you try Mental Science? They say it's fine! You know, you just think you haven't any gout, and then you don't have any! Though, for that matter, you might as well think you hadn't any foot."
"And, then, wouldn't I have any?"