I ketched him for you, 'cause you're sick.' "Ugh! I can smell that fish yet! I smelled it all afternoon, for he took it down-stairs to have it cleaned and cooked.

About one o'clock he came back up-stairs after I had had my lunch, and there he had it on a plate, fried up into a crisp.

I couldn't have swallowed any of it, to save me, but I couldn't disappoint the little fellow when he had tried so hard to please me, so I had to ask him to leave it, and told him maybe I would feel more like eating after I had slept awhile.

So he went out perfectly satisfied, and I lay there, growing sicker every minute from the smell of that fried fish.

At last I gathered up strength enough to throw it out of the window to the cat, but the plate still smelled of it, and nobody came in to take it away until after dark.
"Cousin Hetty was dreadfully worried when she found that Davy had been in my room, but he didn't take the measles, and that was the only time I saw him while I was sick.