“Dear Aunt Polly and Uncle Tom:—Oh, I can—I can—I CAN walk! I did to-day all the way from my bed to the window! It was six steps. My, how good it was to be on legs again!  
“All the doctors stood around and smiled, and all the nurses stood beside of them and cried. A lady in the next who walked last week first, into the door, and another one who hopes she can walk next month, was invited in to the party, and she laid on my nurse's bed and clapped her hands. Even Black Tilly who washes the floor, looked through the window and called me 'Honey, child' when she wasn't crying too much to call me anything.
 
“I don't see why they cried. I wanted to sing and shout and ! Oh—oh—oh! just think............