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Often when she had been out bum-boating for the best part of the day, and had been attending to household matters for the remainder, she would sit up the whole night with a sick acquaintance who was too poor to hire a nurse, and had only thanks to give her, and perhaps of that not very liberally. I have said that my mother had as warm and generous a heart as ever beat in woman's bosom.
Eager as I was to get back, I did not like to run ahead of him; and, to do him justice, he exerted himself to walk as fast as his breath would allow him. He asked me several questions; then I told him that mother had been again out bum-boating. "Bad very bad. I told her not to go. A relapse is a serious matter," he remarked, panting and puffing between his sentences.
They talked the matter over, and he, knowing that something must be done for the support of the family, gave, though unwillingly, his consent. Thus it happened that my mother again took to bum-boating. Trade, however, wasn't like what it used to be in the war time, I heard grandmother say.
How's the missus?" he asked, stepping on shore and dropping the kedge to make fast his boat. "I feared she wouldn't be up to bum-boating to-day." "Mother's dead," I answered. "Dead! The missus dead!" he exclaimed, clapping his hand to his brow, and looking fixedly at me. "The Lord have mercy on us!" "Nancy wants you, Tom," I said. "I'm coming, Peter, I'm coming.
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