Madam Speckbom owned a house which was called “Noah’s Ark.” Down in the bright comfortable rooms on the side toward the sun, she lived herself; above lived Miss Falbe with her brother; and up in the garret--there were only two stories--in attic rooms, under the stairs and back of the chimney-pots lived a number of unclean animals which went under the common title, “the gang.” Madam Speckbom was not only a wise woman; she was literally a klog-kone or quack as well; for she was a doctor or, as the regular doctor called her, a quack.…
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