Ernest Hemingway,
In Our Time — Indian Camp
(1925)
“ Inside on a wooden bunk lay a young Indian woman. She had been trying to have her baby for two days. All the old women in the camp had been helping her. The men had moved off up the road to sit in the dark and smoke out of range of the noise she made. She screamed just as Nick and the two Indians followed his father and Uncle George into the shanty. ”
Ernest Hemingway,
In Our Time — Indian Camp
(1925)
“ Nick, standing in the door of the kitchen, had a good view of the upper bunk when his father, the lamp in one hand, tipped the Indian's head back. It was just beginning to be daylight when they walked along the logging road back toward the lake. "I'm terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie," said his father, all his post-operative exhilaration gone. "It was an awful mess to put you through." "Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?" Nick asked. ”
Ernest Hemingway,
In Our Time — Indian Camp
(1925)
“ "Oh, Daddy, can't you give her something to make her stop screaming?" asked Nick. "No. I haven't any anæsthetic," his father said. "But her screams are not important. I don't hear them because they are not important." ”
