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\u201cO dear! O dear! O dear!\u201d cried Jack, \u201cI do have such a hard time. Now mother won\u2019t let me go coasting, and all because I have a little sore throat. As if a fellow could take more cold, exercising all the time. I do think I have the hardest time in the world!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTut, tut, tut!\u201d said Uncle John, who happened to hear this ridiculous statement. \u201cDid you ever hear of Mr. Hodgkins, Jack?\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWhy, yes, of course, Uncle John. Why, I pass his house every day going to school.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWell, you know, then, Jack, for you have seen him at his window, that for forty years he has not been out of that room, and he has to be carried from his bed to his chair, and from his chair to his bed again. And yet he bears it all so patiently,\u2014but then, to be sure, he well-may, for he can say to himself, \u2018I haven\u2019t the hardest time in the world; Jack has!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack looked confused.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then,\u201d his uncle continued, \u201cdo you know Gertrude Wilson?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGertrude Wilson, the girl who keeps the little candy shop? Why, I buy candy there out of my pocket money almost every week. Of course I know Gertrude Wilson.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, then you may have heard how Gertrude once lived in that fine stone house where judge Merriweather lives now, and how her father lost his health, and then his money, and then her mother died; and now they live in a mean little house, and Gertrude has a very hard time to support the family. But, as she hasn\u2019t as hard a time as Jack, it\u2019s no wonder that she is so patient through it all!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cO Uncle John!\u201d cried Jack, putting his hand on his uncle\u2019s mouth, \u201cyou needn\u2019t say a word more. I didn\u2019t mean what I said,\u2014or, rather I did<\/i> mean it, but I didn\u2019t think. Why, of course<\/i> I know dozens and dozens of people who have a harder time than I ever had or ever thought of having.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if your mother won\u2019t let you coast for fear of your making your throat worse?\u201d<\/p>\n
But Jack ran away, too much ashamed of himself to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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