tales-of-Fogo-Island

and her father stayed at the home of Mrs. Jim Barnes. The next day,conditions were better and the ship tried again to make the crossing. Thistime, the Holme made it as far as Wild Cove, near Twillingate.A group of men from that community went out on the ice to meet the ship.They placed Anora in a small boat and pushed and pulled this boat over theice and through open water. After a long struggle, they finally arrived at thehome of Mr Isaac Roberts in Wild Cove. Soon after an ambulance arrived andtook the injured girl to the hospital.Two days had passed since the accident and little Anora was in seriouscondition. At the hospital, x-rays showed that twenty shot and a large quantityof feathers were lodged in her neck and shoulder. Later that night, Dr.Parsons operated and removed eighteen shot and most of the feathers.However, he was forced to leave two shot in her neck because they were tooclose to her windpipe.Despite the odds, Anora survived the surgery and was soon on her way to afull recovery. In the days that followed the accident, Anora's father noted allthe people that had helped him and his little girl. He also kept a small glassbottle containing some feathers and shot. After returning home, he traced thepath of the shot through the ceiling. They had traveled through a baseboard, apartition, a feather bed and feather pillow before striking his daughter.Anora still has two shot remaining in her neck but comments, "Since theyhave been them for seventy-one years, I would just as soon leave themthere!"Questions to think and write about:1. How did the feathers get into Anora's wound?2. Why are two shot still lodged in Anora's neck