The house stood on rising ground, and the nursery was at the top of the house-except of course for the attics above-so there was a good view from the two large windows. This was a great comfort to the children during the weeks they were busy getting better from a long, very long, illness, or illnesses. For they had been so unwise as to get measles, and scarlet fever, and something else-I am not sure if it was whooping-cough or chicken-pox-all mixed up together Don't you think they might have been content with one at a time? Their mamma thought so, and the doctor thought so, and most of all, perhaps, nurse thought so.
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