I did not get thoroughly warm all day, for the fire in the middle room, made of green wood, was continually in the process of being stifled with a greener stick, as the others kindled.

The school-room was warm; but I had a back seat by a window, where my feet were iced by a current, and my head exposed to a draught.

In January I had so bad an ague that I was confined at home a week.

But I grew fast in spite of all my discomforts.

Aunt Mercy took the tucks out of my skirts, and I burst out where there were no tucks.