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He was a powerful negro, with a close-cropped bullet-head, a massive bulldog jaw, and a pair of incongruously gentle and credulous eyes. According to his own diagnosis, he was suffering from "asmy, bronketers, pneumony, grip, diabeters, and old age."
"Was that in a Bost'n horsepittle?" he asked, with eager interest. "That's where. In the fall three years ago. Pneumony." "Mine was rheumatic fever two years ago," said the Cap'n. "It's what drove me off'm deep water. She was fat, wasn't she, and had light hair and freckles across the bridge of her nose, and used to set side of the bed and hum: 'I'm a pilgrim, faint and weary'?"
"What is the matter with Lois?" asked Miss Dorcas. "Doctor says she's threatened with the pneumony and she's terrible bad off," said Peggy. As Miss Margery was not at home, Miss Dorcas herself went with Anne and Honey-Sweet to see the sick child.
Perkins, "to think that dear Uncle Ebeneezer's last words should be given to us in this unexpected but original way." "Shut up," said Mrs. Smithers, emphatically, "and read them last words. I'm gettin' the pneumony now, that's wot I am." "You're the only one," chirped Mrs. Dodd, hysterically. "The money in this here box is all old." It was, indeed. Mr.
Willie and Stover nodded. "Then let me tell you I expect to have pneumonia from that bath." The young man coughed hollowly. "That's the way I caught it once before, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if I'd be too sick to run by Saturday." "Oh no; you don't get pneumony but once." "And, besides," Fresno added, "it wouldn't have time to show up by Saturday."
"There is in the worst of fortunes The best of chances for a happy change." "Good land! you all're so clean in here I'm feared of ketchin' the pneumony." Mrs. Wiggs stood in Miss Hazy's kitchen and smiled approval at the marvelous transformation.