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Updated: May 24, 2025
With him, she loved him in truth, at times a vexed and worried love; but love it was, a love that was stronger than she. "This La Grippe is nothing," he was saying. "It hurts a bit, and gives one a nasty headache, but it doesn't compare with break-bone fever." "Have you had that, too?" she queried absently, intent on the heaven-sent justification she was finding in his arms.
In 1761 he was attacked with a disease which seems incidental to new settlements, known in Virginia at that time as the "river fever," and a hundred years later, farther west, as the "break-bone fever," and which, in a far milder form, is to-day known as malaria.
You see, they was just naturally made that way. My son, Willie," here the brave voice lowered a trifle and tears rose to the bright old eyes, "he used to call them in fun always jokin', that boy was the Break-bone Petersons." "But are you sure you aren't hurt?" Betty insisted, still with that curious feeling of having the wind taken out of her sails.
Then you can ask all the questions you please about the marsh and water birds. You will learn how the tides ebb and flow, and see the moon come up out of the water. "There! Don't all talk at once! Yes, Rap is coming with us and his mother also, to help take care of you children, for Mammy Bun must stay here. She does not like to camp out says she is afraid of getting break-bone fever.
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