Her head was as empty as a flowerpot. Some men were gathering on another dock, and he went to see what was going on.
A sign read: DECK HANDS WANTED FREE PASSAGE TO AMERICA. He had no sailing experience, but the ship’s captain signed him aboard.
The captain could see that Elya was a man of great strength. Not everybody could carry a full-grown pig up the side of a mountain.
It wasn’t until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the Atlantic
that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain.
He felt terrible. He wasn’t afraid of the curse. He thought that was a lot of nonsense.
He felt bad because he knew Madame Zeroni had wanted to drink from the stream before she died.
Zero was the smallest kid in Group D, but he was the first one to finish digging.
“You’re finished?” Stanley asked enviously. Zero said nothing.
Stanley walked to Zero’s hole and watched him measure it with his shovel.
The top of his hole was a perfect circle, and the sides were smooth and steep.
Not one dirt clod more than necessary had been removed from the earth. Zero pulled himself up to the surface.
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