Excerpt from Suffolk Tales and Other Stories: Fairy Legends, Poems, Miscellaneous ArticlesGod will send this complaint to everyone that shun them that is ill with it, ' she said.I hinted that this was not the usually received opinion, but she was firm.He have spared you and yours, ' she went on severely, 'because you have visited the sick - and you ought to be thankful.' She intimated darkly that Mrs. Villiers (one of the ladies in our Village) was doomed, as She had not been to see her, and, ' she said, cheerfully, it will go very hard with her, as she have the asthma so bad. This complaint isn't Shut up in a room. It is in the air - and them it's sent to is bound to have it, and no doctor can save them from it.' She then gave me a very minute account of her illness, not sparing me a single harrowing detail.There were one thing, ' she acknowledged, that I did miss, and that were spots. I were as gay as a leopard when I had the scarlet fever some years back, but none come this time.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.