Not Brutally Meant

When Sir William MacCormac arrived in consultation on the Prince of Wales' recent accident the prince, with his usual optimism, looked up and said, "Well, after all, it is not so bad as it might have been. I might have broken my leg." "I wish you had," replied the president of the College of Surgeons, whose technical knowledge made him, of course, aware of the fact which his royal highness has now learned, that a broken patella is a far more difficult thing to repair thoroughly than a broken leg. -- Westminster Budget.