Учебно-методическое пособие по домашнему чтению по английскому языку. Баланина Б.Д. - 53 стр.

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Mo-Mo Is Ill

(after Jane Walsh)

Mo-Mo went down with a chill, or so I thought. She came home

from school one Monday afternoon complaining about a headache. She

really looked seedy.

I tucked her up in bed and gave her hot drinks. The next morning

she seemed quite normal again, but I kept her in bed just to be on the

safe side.

The day after she was just as bad as ever, and had a very high

temperature.

I ran down to the doctor without stopping to put on an outdoor coat.

"Really," the doctor mumbled, "you mothers seem to t h ink I have

nothing else to do but run around after your children. Children are

always running temperatures. Ah ... well ... I'll come in and see you

later."

When she came it was eleven o'clock at night. She woke Mo-Mo,

took her temperature and felt her pulse. Then she gave me two tablets

for her and a prescription for more.

I told her Mo-Mo's legs seemed to be affected but she just wasn't

listening. She gave me a mumbled sort of lecture on running for the

doctor whenever there was the slightest thing wrong with a child, and,

still mumbling, went home.

She promised to look in again the following morning.

But the next few days were anxious ones for me. Mo-Mo was really

ill and the doctor never came.

I sat up with her every night, trying to warm her little legs. She had

no use in them and they were always cold.

Late on Sunday night the doctor came again. She was still tired and

said she would look at Mo-Mo's legs the following day.

I went o f f to work the following morning with a very heavy heart.

My little one did not seem any better at all.

I was working part-time f o r two business ladies, cleaning their

f l a t and giving their invalid brother his midday meal.