Martha Finley
Mildred Keith - Complete 7 Book Collection
Timeless Children Classics
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Table of Contents
Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore
Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends
Mildred Keith
Preface
The Keith family were relatives of Horace Dinsmore, and as my readers will observe, the date of this story is some seven years earlier than that of the first Elsie book.
The journey, and that most sickly season, which I have attempted to describe, were events in my own early childhood. The latter still dwells in my memory as a dreadful dream.
Our family—a large one—were all down with the fever except my aged grandmother and a little sister of six or seven, and "help could not be had for love or money."
My father, who was a physician, kept up and made his rounds among his town and country patients for days after the fever had attacked him, but was at length compelled to take his bed, and I well remember lying there beside him while the neighbors flocked into the room to consult him about their sick ones at home.
That region of country is now, I believe, as healthy as almost any other part of our favored land. Such a season, it was said, had never been known before, and there has been none like it since.
M. F.
Chapter First.
"Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
