Fever 1793
Matilda Cook lives in Pennsylvania at the Coffee House with Mother, Grandfather, his parrot- King George, Silas- Matilda’s cat, and Eliza their cook. Polly is the serving girl and she didn’t show up to work one day. Mother goes to get tea, when she gets back she tells Mattie that Polly had died, Mother told Mattie and Eliza that she had the fever and there was no doctor around. More people were getting the fever. Rumors start spreading and people begin staying away from the shops by the river. A lot of people start leaving town.
Mattie and Grandfather see a man pushing a wheelbarrow with a body in it. He dumps the body in the street, and they realize its Mattie’s mother. She isn’t dead. Grandfather gets Mr. Rowley to look at her. …show more content…
Mrs. Flag takes care of her at Bush Hill. She is moved to the barn after Dr. Deveze comes to visit her. They ride into town the next day on a wagon with five children and Mrs. Bowles. They get back to the Coffee House. Her mother isn’t there and neither is Eliza, but the Coffee House was robbed. She left the shutters open, and two robbers came in through the shutters. They realize Mattie is in there and they started chasing her. Grandfather shows up with a gun. The short robber leaves, but the tall one stays, Grandfather shoots at him but the tall one attacks him. Mattie hits his shoulder with a sword, then he leaves. Grandfather is hurt. He says to Matilda I love you then he passes away.
Mattie stops the people who were burying him and said a prayer from Psalms. She tries to get Mr. Brown to put an ad in the newspaper to help her find her mother but he says he couldn’t. So she is walking down the street, she sees a small child in an open doorway. She tells Mattie that her mom is broken. The child’s name was Nell. Mattie thought she saw Eliza. So she starts calling her name and she sees her. Eliza takes her and Nell to her brother Joseph and his sons Robert and William but Joseph has the fever and Mother Smith takes care of the
Matilda Cook lives in Pennsylvania at the Coffee House with Mother, Grandfather, his parrot- King George, Silas- Matilda’s cat, and Eliza their cook. Polly is the serving girl and she didn’t show up to work one day. Mother goes to get tea, when she gets back she tells Mattie that Polly had died, Mother told Mattie and Eliza that she had the fever and there was no doctor around. More people were getting the fever. Rumors start spreading and people begin staying away from the shops by the river. A lot of people start leaving town.
Mattie and Grandfather see a man pushing a wheelbarrow with a body in it. He dumps the body in the street, and they realize its Mattie’s mother. She isn’t dead. Grandfather gets Mr. Rowley to look at her. …show more content…
Mrs. Flag takes care of her at Bush Hill. She is moved to the barn after Dr. Deveze comes to visit her. They ride into town the next day on a wagon with five children and Mrs. Bowles. They get back to the Coffee House. Her mother isn’t there and neither is Eliza, but the Coffee House was robbed. She left the shutters open, and two robbers came in through the shutters. They realize Mattie is in there and they started chasing her. Grandfather shows up with a gun. The short robber leaves, but the tall one stays, Grandfather shoots at him but the tall one attacks him. Mattie hits his shoulder with a sword, then he leaves. Grandfather is hurt. He says to Matilda I love you then he passes away.
Mattie stops the people who were burying him and said a prayer from Psalms. She tries to get Mr. Brown to put an ad in the newspaper to help her find her mother but he says he couldn’t. So she is walking down the street, she sees a small child in an open doorway. She tells Mattie that her mom is broken. The child’s name was Nell. Mattie thought she saw Eliza. So she starts calling her name and she sees her. Eliza takes her and Nell to her brother Joseph and his sons Robert and William but Joseph has the fever and Mother Smith takes care of the