It Might Have Been.
Sir Archibald Geikie, in his "Reminiscences," tells a story of a country parish in the West of Scotland where the- minister's man was a noted pessimist, whose only consolation to his friends in any calamity consisted in the remark, "It mieht hae been waur." One morning, he was met by the minister, who told him he had had such a terrible dream that he had not yet been able to shake off the effects of it. "I dreamt I was in hell, and experienced the torments of the lost. I never suffered such agony in my life, and even now I shudder when I think of it." The beadie's usual consolatory remark came out : "It mioht hae been waur." "Oh, John, John, I tell you it was the greatest mental distress I ever suffered in my life. How could 1 it have been worse?" "It mioht hae been true," was the reply.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 87
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