The Sick-a-Bed Lady

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The title page of The Sick-a-Bed Lady lists accompanying pieces including Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day and Something That Happened in October. The Young Doctor brings wild strawberries for their smell rather than mainly for eating, though the Sick-A-Bed Lady gobbles them down when he is not looking.

A spray of yellow jasmine prompts the woman to kiss it and exclaim about home, and the pleased Young Doctor writes in a little book. The woman connects fresh green bank-notes with shops and reacts with disgust to gasoline, which she connects with gloves and playfully slaps from the doctor's hand.

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was an American novelist and short-story writer known for lively dialogue, romantic comedy, and carefully observed New England settings. Molly Make-Believe, published in 1910, became one of her best-known early novels. The White Linen Nurse followed in 1913, Little Eve Edgarton in 1914, and The Indiscreet Letter in 1915.