“It’s lucky Josh found ’em all right,” responded Christopher. “He knows a lot about horses, Josh does, and he might have found something wrong.”
“Oh, he couldn’t have been so mean as to say anything was wrong about ’em. He just couldn’t help loving the cunning little things.”
“It isn’t a question of loving,” retorted Christopher grandly. “It’s a question of spavins or—or heaves, or heart disease. Those are horse’s diseases, you know.”
“They aren’t all horse’s diseases. People can have some of ’em. Leastways, nurse said Norah Flannigan had heart disease and that was what made her eyes stick out, like a frog’s.”
“What did her eyes sticking out have to do with it?”
“Why, greeny, don’t you know that when people have heart disease their eyes always bulge? It’s a symptom. I asked mother and she said so. But who I’m sorry for is Letty,” she went on hastily. She saw that Christopher was about to question further about this most interesting symptom of heart trouble and she did not wish to betray the fact that she had come to the end of her knowledge.
“What are you sorry for Letty for? Has she got heart disease?”
“No, but she hasn’t any home.”
“Well, but she’s got a circus to belong to and that’s lots more exciting.”
“But she doesn’t like a circus. She said so. She doesn’t like traveling around and living in a tent. And now that Punch and Judy are gone from the circus she won’t have anything to do. I wish grandmother had let her stay here to help Huldah.”