above!" said the doctor, turning to Mrs. French, "she's running
over with vermin! Let's see the other."

He turned to a girl of five, whose head and face were even more
seriously affected with the dread disease.

"Why, bless my soul! This girl will lose her eyesight! Now look
here, these children must go to the hospital, and must go now.
Tell your mother what I say."

Again the little girl translated, and again the mother made
emphatic reply.

"What does she say?"

"She say she not let them go. She fix them herself. Fix them all right."

"Perhaps we better wait, Doctor," interposed Mrs. French. "I'll talk
to her and we'll try another day."

"No," said the doctor, catching up a shawl and wrapping it around
the little girl, "she's going with me now. There will be a scrap,
and you will have to get in. I'll back you up."

As the doctor caught up the little child, the mother shouted,
"No, no! Not go!"

"I say yes," said the doctor; "I'll get a policeman and put you
all in prison. Tell her."