Ruth
“She scrubbed floors down on her knees. Since she’d been here, she’d hauled heavy water buckets up from the creek, cooked three meals a day, and washed the old couple’s clothes in the icy stream. The whole while, Ulele sat in the rocker and talked gibberish to the baby.On the second afternoon Ruth caught the Indian staring at her.“What?” she asked, attempting a genial smile. Though she treated Ruth as nothing more than a servant, Ulele, with her strange herbs and tonics, had most likely saved Dy...lan’s life. Ruth tried to summon gratitude, but mostly she rued the day she and Dylan had accepted the old couple’s help. Ruth was accustomed to hard work, but the labor the old woman forced on her was nothing short of a crime. And Nehemiah worked Dylan like a plow horse.The squaw shook her head, which Ruth had come to recognize meant that the woman was in no mood to communicate. Ruth understood little of what the Cherokee woman said, though Ulele made her work instructions very clear.“Clean!”“Wash!”“Cook!”“Sit.”Nehemiah seemed proud that his wife’s vocabulary was broadening.MoreLess
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