The child was Koo-tee, the old man thought, a sickly child.
VOA: special.2010.02.27
Jones' family moved to a summer house near there when he was six -- he was asicklychild who could not eat solid food, according to his descendents' business website.
Tellingly, it begins with the image of asickly, tubercular child, rasping for breath in the night, and then the flare of a light as his older brother reaches for a dime-store paperback, a well-thumbed cowboy yarn he means to read before sleep.
Though still hooked up to a machine, she acted like any typical four-year old, rather than the sickly, constantly exhausted child she was until very recently.