“The rail station, Miss Harriet.”
“Rail station? Where we gonna go?”
“Further north,” said Claudia. “It ain’t safe for you here no more.”
“You need to wrap that arm, Robert,” said Jane. She had noticed that the blood was trickling all the way down his arm and onto the leather seat of the carriage.
“It ain’t that bad,” said Robert.
“No, she’s right,” said Harriet.
“Here,” said Claudia. She handed Robert the small blue linen sheet that she had been using as a scarf.
“No, Claudia, I can’t take your scarf,” said Robert.
Claudia handed the scarf to Harriet. “Will you make him use this, Miss Harriet?”
“You’re an angel, Claudia,” said Harriet. She took the scarf and began digging in her coat pockets where she kept her small vials of paregoric and other herbal remedies. Kyla and Zammie watched in rapt amazement as she pulled out a small green vial and dabbed some of the jelly-like substance inside on the scarf. Then she had Robert straighten out his arm as best he could and tied the scarf around the wound tightly with the jelly portion pressed against the wound. The cut was across his lower shoulder so Harriet tied the scarf around his bicep.
“What is that stuff, Harriet?” asked Robert. “Smells like bad cabbage.”
“Wormwood, Beth Root, an’ some other things,” said Harriet. “It’ll help ya heal so never you mind the smell.”
--An Herbal Remedy
from Time Trip #2: A Ride on the Underground Railroad
TIME TRIP ADVENTURE 4
KILLING FOR COUNTRY
TIME TRIP ADVENTURE 2
A RIDE ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
TIME TRIP ADVENTURE 3
WITNESS TO THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
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