Chapter 26: The Mother's Woe

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​⁠The experienced eyes of this motherly woman soon saw that the lovely young stranger was ill of fever, and in a very serious condition; but having successfully raised a family of nine stalwart sons by her own skill and without aid from the doctors, she "was not feazed," as her husband quaintly said, "by the case." She simply put Dainty to bed, and while she was getting breakfast, brewed a decoction