The Road to Oregon City by Jesse Wiley

Author:Jesse Wiley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Over the next few days, you get weaker and weaker. Finally, you are unable to keep moving. Your family is forced to camp and forage for food in the woods, but you won’t find enough to sustain you for much longer.

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I guess you and Ma agree about the fishing net,” Pa says.

You smile and nod.

“I’ll finish up the washing if you’ll weave me the net,” Pa offers Ma. Soon Ma has put together an impressive net.

“This should catch plenty of fish,” Pa says, thanking her.

Pa heads toward the river, and you run up behind him. He places his hand around your shoulder, and you walk together to the banks of the river. You grab one side of the net from Pa and fling it into the water.

SPLASH! Your hand accidentally gets stuck in the net, and you fall into the water. You manage to get out of tangle and swim back to the banks with the net, where Pa gives you a hand and pulls you out.

“Let’s try that again,” Pa says, and you both have a good laugh about what happened.

You throw the net back into the water, and within a couple of hours, you are able to catch several fish for dinner. Ma whips up an amazing supper that leaves you satisfied. Even better, the fiddles come out for the first time in a long while, and everyone enjoys some music and dancing.

A few hours after you eat, you start feeling nauseated and are bent over with pain in your stomach. The night passes and you don’t feel any better, spending most of it throwing up.

“I think I know what’s wrong with you,” Pa says as he sits with you through the night.

“What is it, Pa?” you ask, trying to sound brave.

“You must have swallowed some of the water from the lake, and it’s making you sick,” he replies. “You’ll be fine.”

But Pa is wrong. The next few days are very painful, and you don’t get any better. You die of dysentery.

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