Mrs.Thomas said I was the homeliest baby she ever saw, I was so scrawny and tiny and nothing but eyes, but that mother thought I was perfectly beautiful.

I should think a mother would be a better judge than a poor woman who came in to scrub, wouldn't you?
I'm glad she was satisfied with me anyhow, I would feel so sad if I thought I was a disappointment to her--because she didn't live very long after that, you see.

She died of fever when I was just three months old.

I do wish she'd lived long enough for me to remember calling her mother.

I think it would be so sweet to say 'mother,' don't you?
And father died four days afterwards from fever too.