“No, never so bad as New Orleans sometimes is.”
“Right healthy place, I expect, sir?”
“Yes, I believe so, for a place of its size.”
“What diseases do you have there, sir?”
“All sorts of diseases—not so much fever, however, as you have hereabouts.”
“Measles and hooping-cough, sometimes, I reckon?”
“Yes, ’most all the time, I dare say.”
“All the time! People must die there right smart. Some is dyin’ ’most every day, I expect, sir?”
“More than a hundred every day, I suppose.”
“Gosh! a hundred every day! Almighty sickly place ’t must be?”