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THE CUCKOO CLOCK
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CHAPTER VI.

RUBBED THE WRONG WAY.

"For now and then there comes a day
When everything goes wrong."

Griselda's cold was much better by "to-morrow morning." In fact, I might almost say it was quite well.

But Griselda herself did not feel quite well, and saying this reminds me that it is hardly sense to speak of a cold being better or well—for a cold's being "well" means that it is not there at all, out of' existence, in short, and if a thing is out of existence how can we say anything about it? Children, I feel quite in a hobble—I cannot get my mind straight about it—please think it over and