But soon, Mary's limb below the knee began to show signs of mortification; and after a few days of severe suffering, it was found necessary to have another operation, and take it off higher.
She understood now what was to be done; but when Miss Alden told her the surgeons would do it while she was asleep so that it wouldn't hurt her, she submitted without a word.
The most remarkable trait in this patient child was her truthfulness. She had evidently been well taught at home, for nothing would induce her to tell a lie.
She used often to call one and another of the patients to her chair to button her dolly's dress, or tie a string in her apron.
"Come here, Maggy Jones," she called one day. "Please come here!"
"No, I can't; my foot is cut off," answered the girl, laughing.
"O Maggy, that's a wicked lie! I see your two feet; oh, where will you go now?"
This she said in a voice of great distress, and never afterwards believed anything the girl told her.
One day, after the doctor had been playfully teasing her, pinching her cheeks, etc., she said, "I don't like Dr. P—, he's a maninger."
Nurse made her repeat it, and they all laughed, though they couldn't discover what "maninger" meant.