13/36 He'd been readin' in a paper about people gettin' somethin' he called 'rose cold' an' he began to sneeze an' said he'd got it an' then a new gardener as didn't know th' rules passed by an' looked at him curious. He threw himself into a passion an' he said he'd looked at him because he was going to be a hunchback. He cried himself into a fever an' was ill all night." "If he ever gets angry at me, I'll never go and see him again," said Mary. "Tha' may as well know that at th' start." Very soon afterward a bell rang and she rolled up her knitting. "I hope he's in a good temper." She was out of the room about ten minutes and then she came back with a puzzled expression. |