Room Upstairs (1966)
“Half of them shed from some dreadful disease, poor souls. They started burying them up on the hill, but when more people kept dying, they flattened out the mounds and sowed a crop over, to fool the Indians.’ Dorothy raised her eyebrows, which were inked in to match her hair.
‘They didn’t know much about medicine, beyond things like stewing bugs in wine, so after a bit the old Indian women began to teach them their herbal remeshes.’ ‘No Wonder Drugs in those days.’ put in Dorothy, who could not ...listen for long without comment, even when she had nothing intelligent to say.
‘That’s right, Dot.’ Call me Dot, she had said, and Sybil was trying, but it made her feel like the bird. Dot loves Roger. Hullo Dot, scratch a bird. ‘And one of the colonists made some notes for a herbal, and that was my ancestor Will Camden. Great, great—’ ‘You told me.’ ‘And it was his grandson,’ she could see him now, labouring with his own brown hands, sweating in a jerkin and breeches, ‘built one of the first big houses in the town.MoreLess
‘They didn’t know much about medicine, beyond things like stewing bugs in wine, so after a bit the old Indian women began to teach them their herbal remeshes.’ ‘No Wonder Drugs in those days.’ put in Dorothy, who could not ...listen for long without comment, even when she had nothing intelligent to say.
‘That’s right, Dot.’ Call me Dot, she had said, and Sybil was trying, but it made her feel like the bird. Dot loves Roger. Hullo Dot, scratch a bird. ‘And one of the colonists made some notes for a herbal, and that was my ancestor Will Camden. Great, great—’ ‘You told me.’ ‘And it was his grandson,’ she could see him now, labouring with his own brown hands, sweating in a jerkin and breeches, ‘built one of the first big houses in the town.MoreLess
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