He talked to th' other doctor quite rough--in a polite way.

He said there'd been too much medicine and too much lettin' him have his own way." "I think he's a very spoiled boy," said Mary.
"He's th' worst young nowt as ever was!" said Martha.

"I won't say as he hasn't been ill a good bit.

He's had coughs an' colds that's nearly killed him two or three times.

Once he had rheumatic fever an' once he had typhoid.