Fortunately, a headache never has difficulty finding a good home. A toothache has to hope
for a vacancy in a holey molar. An earache must wait for a cold day to chase down hatless chil-
dren, but I just move into a head any time.
Even if an earache is lucky enough to catch an ear, he has the most cramped quarters in
which to live. And imagine how confining it is to be a toothache, trapped inside a bicuspid!
Neither has as much room as I, and I don't have to tolerate either bad breath or sticky, yellow
wax!
A headache can easily find lodging in any head that has a problem (and most people have
plenty of problems!). Why, I've lived in some of the best heads-presidents, movie stars, and
even athletes I have known many of them intimately. I've met more people than any other
ache around. Most of them I like, but the person I wish never to meet is the one who invented
aspirin!


1. From what point of view is the essay written?
2. What is the main idea conveyed by this essay?
3. List at least three details that support the main idea you have
written above.
4. What does the writer say is the one disadvantage of being a headache?
5. Which title below do you think best fits this piece? Write it on the line
above the essay.
Go to the Head of the Class
• Down with Aspirin!
Advantages of Being a Headache
•Heads I Have Met