The Dressmaker's Secret by Rosalie Ham
Author:Rosalie Ham [Ham, Rosalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-06T22:00:32+00:00
At lunchtime the next day, still smarting from her stint in the linen press the evening prior, Elsbeth Beaumont went to the kitchen and lifted the lid on the stockpot. She scraped around with the spoon until sheâd found all four leg bones. âI knew there were two missing. Do you think I canât count? I gave permission for one chook.â
âThere werenât enough vegies to pad out the stew,â said Lois, who had chicken feathers in her hair and a spray of chicken blood across her apron.
âYou could have used rice.â
âWe donât like foreign food.â
âYouâre a greedy thief, Lois Pickett. You could live easily on half rations.â
âYouâre the fief, you never paid your bills and youâre mean and nasty and you fink youâre Hitler.â
The people in the kitchen ceased cooking, organising crockery and cutlery for lunch, and folded their arms.
âOh, I see,â laughed Elsbeth. âYouâre on strike, are you? Isnât that pointless? Youâll just end up starving and homeless. There will be no chicken next week.â She looked at Felicity Joy. âWhat are you doing?â
âMaking a chicken sandwich.â She would take it to the safety of the roof, lean against the chimney with her book and search for messages from the red plains about anything out of the ordinary, leaving the adults to their endless squabbling.
âYouâll end up as big as your mother. Have a carrot instead.â Elsbeth turned in her small worn shoes, marched back to her bedroom and resumed stitching the beaded hem of one ball gown onto another, the ruined faux-fur collar thrown deep into the corner of her infested wardrobe.
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