Courage to Run_A Story Based on the Life of Harriet Tubman by Wendy Lawton

Author:Wendy Lawton [Lawton, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: childrens
ISBN: 9780802440983
Amazon: B0039M97VE
Goodreads: 1411498
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2002-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

How hard it had been to say good-bye to Old Rit. Cicero took the wagon around back and knocked on the back door. A pretty young woman answered the door.

“Miss Susan?” When Cicero saw the woman incline her head slightly he continued, “I carried your new girl over from the Cooks’ place. This here be Araminta Ross from Brodas Plantation.” Cicero pushed Minty forward. “They call her Minty.”

“Hmm.” Miss Susan looked Minty over. “You are the one that Edward Brodas said was good with children?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“All right. Come in, come in.” She flicked her hand toward Cicero. “Get on home, boy. I’m sure Edward Brodas does not feed you in order to have you standing idle here.”

Before she stepped into the house, Minty turned around to get one last look at her mother sitting in the wagon. Cicero climbed up beside her and flicked the reins. Seems like my life is just one good-bye after another.

“Stop dawdling, girl. There’s much work to be accomplished and I intend to get my fair share out of you.”

Minty followed Miss Susan into the house. It was a fine house, filled with pretty things. The young woman led from the back door along the hallway and up a flight of wooden stairs.

“These are the back stairs, girl. I don’t want to catch you traipsing up the front staircase, y’heah?” Miss Susan’s voice was soft and fluttery, but Minty caught the ugly undertone. “Put your things here in my room, next to the baby’s cradle.”

The room held a bed, draped in linens, and a small draped table with sparkly bottles, jars, and a brush set atop it. An ornate mirror hung above the table and a draped stool in front of it. Two chests of drawers stood on either wall of the far corner. In the near corner was a highly polished cradle. Next to that was a rough-hewn trunk.

“You may put your things in that trunk. You will find another blanket in there. Since you already have a quilt, you may keep the blanket to wad up as a pillow. You are not infested with lice, are you?” Miss Susan stood with her arms bent at her waist and her hands resting one on the other. Her skirts were so wide from the hoops underneath that her arms could not hang down without popping the front of her hoop up.

“No, ma’am.”

Miss Susan smelled of jasmine. Minty had never seen anyone dressed as fine as her new mistress.

“You’ll find a linsey-woolsey dress in that trunk as well as three aprons. See that your aprons are always clean and starched. You’ll have to do them up in your spare time. Sadie will find you a pair of shoes and stockings. I don’t want you embarrassing me in front of my friends, y’heah?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“My sister came to stay over the past season to help with Baby Lucinda. Emily’s room is down the hall. My husband’s room is right next to mine, just through that door. You are never to bother him.

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