Must have had some once , though . I was called after half a dozen of them . My full name is Mary Martha Lucilla Moore Ball Vance . Can you beat that ? My grandfather was a rich man . I 'll bet he was richer than YOUR grandfather . But pa drunk it all up and ma , she did her part . THEY used to beat me , too . Laws , I 've been licked so much I kind of like it . '' Mary tossed her head . She divined that the manse children were pitying her for her many stripes and she did not want pity . She wanted to be envied . She looked gaily about her . Her strange eyes , now that the dullness of famine was removed from them , were brilliant . She would show these youngsters what a personage she was . `` I 've been sick an awful lot , '' she said proudly . `` There 's not many kids could have come through what I have . I 've had scarlet fever and measles and ersipelas and mumps and whooping cough and pewmonia . '' `` Were you ever fatally sick ? '' asked Una .
`` I do n't know , '' said XXXXX doubtfully .
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