My friend Jennie Brown wrote from Gorham. She’s recuperating. Recuperating’s a good time for correspondence and thinking. She thought of a saying for my collection. She writes:
“As a child, ill with fever, we were said to be ‘sick a-bed in the wood box.’ This came from the literal as I remember at least once being bedded down in the wood box, which, of course, was near the stove and thus the warmest place in the house. Was at the doctor once, he asked how I was doing, and when I said sick a-bed in the wood box, he had no idea what I was talking about.”
Must have been a flatlander.
Thanks, Jennie, for the story. Get well soon. It’s about time you climbed out of that wood box.
Here’s Jennie telling a story at the Family Resource Center in Gorham.
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