![]() ![]() She wrote articles and books and sold the clothes off her own back, and kept the two of them together and afloat and alive. In the brief moments she could think clearly enough to work, Elizabeth did it in the only way she knew how. Elizabeth had a daughter, Calla Rose,6 a girl with bright yellow hair and three freckles that resembled the precise outline of a mallard’s tertial feather, and it was just the two of them against the world. She also knew a lot about how to survive, but we shall come to this later. She was a very different kind of doctor-the type of doctor who knows an awful lot of things about one subject in particular, but very little about medicines or broken bones.Īnd the particular thing that Elizabeth knew a lot about was ducks.Įlizabeth could tell you what a duck meant when it quacked at you, why you shouldn’t feed a wild duck bread,2 why mallards are horrible fathers,3 why ducks have such big feet,4 and what is the best joke about ducks.5 She was not one of those doctors who went around and helped people to get better. Of course there are other people in this book, and you shall meet them at the right time, but for now there is Elizabeth, for without Elizabeth there would not be a story at all. Now that I’ve told you all of that, we can begin.Įlizabeth North is the first person you have to be introduced to. Obviously you don’t have to read the footnotes, but it’s really a lot more fun if you do. All you have to do is go to the bottom of the page, and make sure you’re reading the right numbered thing. You might not actually know what a footnote is, so here’s a demonstration.1 Whenever you see that little number at the side of a word or at the end of a sentence, it means that I’ve remembered something else I want to tell you and that something is at the bottom of the page. I am very fond of footnotes, and nobody else ever uses them so I thought my story would have them. ![]() Elizabeth wanted it to pop up a lot more than it does, but Calla and I talked her out of it. For now, just pay attention whenever that name pops up. Mallardus Amazonica to be precise, but you’ll find out more about that side of things later. ![]() A lot of people being very brave in very complicated times.Ģ. ![]()
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