them days, and devoured pickles and poetry enormously. But she sot store by me, and in the time of trouble I spoze she thought on me and kinder wanted to lean agin, her husband, who wuz a man of common sense and some property, havin' passed away some years before.
Albina Ann said that the doctor said her daughter, Dora, couldn't possibly live only a few months unless she got help, and it wuz a mysterious inward disorder she had, though the doctor had named it a strange, strange name that seemed to scare Albina Ann most to death, she couldn't remember what it wuz, she said it sounded some like Constantinople-Andronopolis, but wuzn't that, but wuz worse and more skairful, but I told her I shouldn't let any doctor's names skair me, they didn't make nothin' of usin' names that wuz fearful. Then she told me that with all this sickness wuz love-sickness added, and for a poor dissipated chap, but good lookin' and fascinating, and I said:
"This is worse than Constantinople-Andronopolis enough sight."
And Albina sez, "That hain't the name, but sounds like it."
And I sez, "Well, it is worse than anything that sounds like anything."
And she sez, "Well, I want to have it broke up, it has got to be broke up." And she resoomed, "I've got to go and see my son Henry's wife, who is dyin' with fever at Denver, with twins added to it, and he sick a-bed, too." And she sez, "It seems as if my troubles all fall on me to once. Both my children liable to die off at any time, and my daughter-in-law and the twins, too."
