I told her I should nurse the child once in two hours, and that she must not feed it any of her nostrums in the meantime; that a child's stomach, being made on the same general plan as our own, needed intervals of rest as well as ours.

She said it would be racked with colic if the stomach was empty any length of time, and that it would surely have rickets if it were kept too still.

I told her if the child had no anodynes, nature would regulate its sleep and motions.

She said she could not stay in a room with the thermometer at sixty-five degrees, so I told her to sit in the next room and regulate the heat to suit herself; that I would ring a bell when her services were needed.
The reader will wonder, no doubt, that I kept such a cantankerous servant.

I could get no other.