`` 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 Mary doubtfully . `` Of course she was n't , '' scoffed Jerry . `` If you 're fatally sick you die . '' `` Oh , well , I never died exactly , '' said Mary , `` but I come blamed near it once . They thought I was dead and they were getting ready to lay me out when I up and come to . '' `` What is it like to be half dead ? '' asked Jerry curiously . `` Like nothing . I did n't know it for days afterwards . It was when I had the pewmonia . Mrs. Wiley would n't have the doctor -- said she was n't going to no such expense for a home girl . Old Aunt Christina MacAllister nursed me with poultices . She brung me round . But sometimes I wish I 'd just died the other half and done with it . I 'd been better off . ''
`` If you went XXXXX heaven I s ` pose you would , '' said Faith , rather doubtfully .
If Like Mary Of Una for near through to with