Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter

Author:Jeanette Winter [Winter, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-98278-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-06-24T16:00:00+00:00


But the dogs lost the runaways’ scent

at the stream,

and Molly and James and Isaiah,

old Hattie and young George,

were not found.

They hid all day in the woods.

At night they walked again,

singing Joe’s song

and looking for the signs

that marked the trail.

The riverbank makes a very good road,

The dead trees will show you the way.

Left foot, peg foot, traveling on,

Follow the drinking gourd.

Walking by night, sleeping by day,

for weeks they traveled on.

Sometimes berries to pick

and corn to snatch,

sometimes fish to catch,



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