They begin with a faint "Ahem!" and gradually rise and fall through all the scale of dissonance, as much as to say: "Hear, all ye good people! I have a cold! I have a bad cold! I have an awful bad cold! Hear how it racks me, tears me, torments me.

It seems as if my diaphragm must be split.

I took this awful bad cold the other night.

I added to it last Sunday.

Hear how it goes off! There it is again.