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took bad?’<br />

‘It ain’t no name for it. <strong>The</strong>y set up with her all night,<br />

Miss Mary Jane said, and they don’t think she’ll last many<br />

hours.’<br />

‘Only think <strong>of</strong> that, now! What’s the matter with her?’<br />

I couldn’t think <strong>of</strong> anything reasonable, right <strong>of</strong>f that<br />

way, so I says:<br />

‘Mumps.’<br />

‘Mumps your granny! <strong>The</strong>y don’t set up with people<br />

that’s got the mumps.’<br />

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‘<strong>The</strong>y don’t, don’t they? You better bet they do with<br />

THESE mumps. <strong>The</strong>se mumps is different. It’s a new<br />

kind, Miss Mary Jane said.’<br />

‘How’s it a new kind?’<br />

‘Because it’s mixed up with other things.’<br />

‘What other things?’<br />

‘Well, measles, and whooping-cough, and erysiplas, and<br />

consumption, and yaller janders, and brain-fever, and I<br />

don’t know what all.’<br />

‘My land! And they call it the MUMPS?’<br />

‘That’s what Miss Mary Jane said.’

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