7^ OCCASIONAL HAPPY THOUGHTS. 



deed, in a minute ! (This subject alone, I note down, ought 

 to occupy a vohnne ; i.e.^ On Enlargement of Mind. Also 

 considered physically. Connection between mind and body, 

 i.e.^ big mind, big body. Cardinal Wolsey an instance. He 

 had a large mind ; then vide Shakespeare : 



"He was a man of an unbounded stomach." — Henry VIII. 



Think it out.) 



Till now I had associated apoplexy only with red-faced 

 old gentlemen of the last century, who would over-eat them- 

 selves regularly, take their three bottles of fine old port every 

 night, and then, one evening, suddenly disappear under the 

 dining-room table in a fit of apoplexy. 



Happy Thought. — Quite the idea, in verse. 



The Fine Old English Gentleman 

 All of the apoplectic time. 



But as to a Cow being liable to such an attack, such an 

 idea had never entered my head. I should as soon have 

 thought of a Cow having the Chicken-pox. 



Being in the vein for this sort of thing this morning [Note 

 down Happy Ihonght. — When ought one to write for The 

 Lancet? Answer — When you're "in the vein." Arrange 

 this.] I ask Trott, " Can a Cow have the Chicken-pox ? " 



" Well," says Trott, deliberately, and for a second taking 

 his eyes off the horse to look at me, only without turning his 

 head— a movement of which the careless animal seems per- 

 fectly aware, as he takes that opportunity of making such a 

 stumble as very nearly brings him down, whereupon I in- 



