Public health announcement

" 'Hullo, Clarence,' said Gally. 'How are you feeling now? I've been thinking about that cold of yours, and I'll tell you the stuff to give it. You want to take a deep breath and hold it as long as you possibly can. This traps the germs in your interior, and not being able to get fresh air, they suffocate. When you finally exhale, the little sons of guns come out as dead as doornails and all you have to do is buy a black tie and attend the funeral. But what profits it to get rid of germs,' he went on, a grave note creeping into his voice, 'when at any moment you are going to have a super-bacillus like Connie at your throat?'

'Eh?'

'That's what I came to tell you. I think you will be receiving a visit from Connie shortly.'

'Oh, dash it!'

' I know just how you feel.'

'She's back then?'

'With her hair in a braid. And they tell me she is considerably hotted up. I haven't seen her myself, but Beach, who had an extended interview with her, describes her as resembling a gorilla roaring and beating its chest and preparing to rip the stuffing out of the citizenry.' "

Pigs Have Wings
P.G. Wodehouse

So I had one of those short-lived bugs that comes on quick and departs just as fast. I felt miserable for 24 hours or so, but after a couple of days of gradual improvement I'm doing fine, (at least as fine as is possible under the circumstances). I still have the occasional sneeze of monumental proportions, but that is nothing to go by. That's really an inherited trait. My father could stop milk production in neighboring counties when he sneezed. Cows would just stop in their tracks at the sound of distant thunder and refuse to move until the storm had passed.