“Boiling Water”

A trading-post hunter boils water in a brass kettle.

After the morning’s unsuccessful deer hunt, the trading post hunter boiled water in anticipation of a meager broth of dried venison and corn. Old Northwest Territory, two ridges east of the River Raisin, in the Year of our Lord, 1795…

 

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