. Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony . 44 RUTH OF BOSTON the Great House, cut away the trees in such a manneras to leave four standing in the form of a square, and from one to anotherof these he nailedsmall logs, toppedwith a piece of sailcloth that had beenbrought on shorefrom the Talbot, fin-ishing the sides withbranches of trees,sticks, and even twoof his wifes bestbed quilts. Into thisqueer home Susan went with hermother, while my parents werecontent to use one of the rooms in the Great Houseuntil father could build for us a dwelling of THE GREAT SICKNESS It see
. Ruth of Boston; a story of the Massachusetts Bay colony . 44 RUTH OF BOSTON the Great House, cut away the trees in such a manneras to leave four standing in the form of a square, and from one to anotherof these he nailedsmall logs, toppedwith a piece of sailcloth that had beenbrought on shorefrom the Talbot, fin-ishing the sides withbranches of trees,sticks, and even twoof his wifes bestbed quilts. Into thisqueer home Susan went with hermother, while my parents werecontent to use one of the rooms in the Great Houseuntil father could build for us a dwelling of THE GREAT SICKNESS It seemed much as if Susan was in the right, when shesaid that the deaths of Lady Arabella and Henry Win-throp were ill omens, because no sooner had all our peoplelanded from the ships, or come up through the forestfrom Salem, than a great sickness raged among us. Many had been ill during the voyage with what THE GREAT SICKNESS 45 • Master Higginson called scurvy, which is a diseasethat attacks people who have lived long on saltedfood, and again many others took totheir beds with asickness caused by the lack of pure, fresh water. Our fathers had but just begun to build up this newtown when it was as if the hand of God had been laidheavily upon us, for, so it was said, not more than oneout of every five of our people was able to perform anywork whatsoever. Those were long, dismal, dreadful days, when ateach time of rising in the morning we learned that thisfriend or that neighbor had gone out from among us,and it seemed to Susan and me as if there were a con-stant
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