I'm going to give her a dose of ipecac first of all." Minnie May did not take kindly to the ipecac but Anne had not brought up three pairs of twins for nothing.

Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
It was three o'clock when Matthew came with a doctor, for he had been obliged to go all the way to Spencervale for one.

But the pressing need for assistance was past.

Minnie May was much better and was sleeping soundly.
"I was awfully near giving up in despair," explained Anne.

"She got worse and worse until she was sicker than ever the Hammond twins were, even the last pair.