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One night Mary woke up by a lot of sounds in the house.
When she came down she saw Ephraim standing between two soldiers, and she understood that the time for them was out now when they had found him.
She didn't really knew if she should be sad or happy for this new situation, because Le Grant had been so nice to her, and she didn't saw a life of luxury and affluence as a problem.

But after a while when Ephraim had told her that it was included in the plan she felt bad, her son was out there risking his life to save her and she had have the plans to follow Le Grant instead of him.
But now when she knew their plans she decided to go home with them again, and the next day they succeeded to run away from their watchers.

Black Fox were waiting for them in their canoe when they came down to the water, and they began to take the same way as they had done when the came to Mount Royale.

But when they came to the big lake, the wind began to blow harder and the canoe foundered.
When they again woke up...

Titel
Montecore, En unik tiger.

Författare
Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Genre
Roman

Allmänt
Jonas Hassen Khemiri är en kritikerrosad författare som tidigare skrivit generationsromanen
Ett öga rött, som vi är väl bekanta med vid det här laget.
Frågan är nu bara om denna bok kan nå upp till de krav som finns efter hans tidigare succe...

Författaren är också aktuell med sin första pjäs, Invasion, som har premiär senare i vår på Stockholms stadsteater.
(Många bollar i luften för denna kille, kan se visa likheter mellan honom och den begåvade Laleh.)

Missisquoi was a village where a lot of different nationalities lived, not just Indians, also Frenchmen and some Englishmen.
The Frenchmen who thought they were better then everybody else were often drunk and treated the Indians like they were slaves.
But one day when a man called Le Frenais tried to do some horrible things with Mary, he disappeared on a strange way and didn't get found before the spring had come to the village.

A new reputation went throw the village, and people who earlier had been grateful to Mary because of her gift began to talk about her as a Witch.

Mary knew that her chances to survive in the village wasn't big now when the Christian had come, so she decided to follow Black Fox and his friend Naugatuck to Mount Royale.
Even if she now went to a village were the most of the people was French she thought it was a better idea then try to survive alone in the forest.

But I'm not sure that it was, because after just some hours in Mound Royale a man came to them with some...

The war against the white men was now over, and the Indians had lost a lot of men.
Damaged troops came everyday to the village and Mary who had a lot to do tried to help as many as she could.
For every day she got more and more worried for her son, who hadn't come back yet.
She knew that he wasn't died, but she was worried that he maybe had been a prisoner.

Some of the warriors who had come home had English prisoners with them.
Mary who knew some of the prisoners from her earlier home tried to hide for them.
But she didn't succeed so well, because one of the women, Mrs Peterson began to visit her house and ask her a lot of questions about her earlier life.
When Mrs Peterson got to know that the Indian village was Marys home she became very angry and didn't talk to her again.
Instead Mrs Peterson began to talk about Mary with the other prisoners, and they talk about her as a Witch.

Mary who now was afraid that the same fate as she already had experienced once should happen again became very glad...

When the warriors came back with the Indian prisoners they began to bury their families that had been killed under the white mens' attack.
It was a lot of sorrow in the camp and Mary was afraid that the sorrow also could take her son away from her.
But the Black Fox made the way throw the sorrow, but instead with a lot of new anger in his body.

After the funeral the Indians began their first journey away from their old home, and on the way they saw a lot of signs from the war.
In one of the village they went throe there was a lot of died women and children everywhere.
Mary who was a powwaw felt really bad for them and wanted to look around if there maybe were someone alive.
In one of the house Mary found a boy, who was hurt.
She decided to take him with her on the journey, and after some days he woke up.
His name was Ephraim and he was 11 years old.

When the winter came the warriors' decided to go south to help their brothers in the war. Mary didn't want to follow them, because she had...

This pages has just been about a lot of sorrow.
It all starts with a war-dance, were both Black Fox and Jaybird join the men that the next day leaved the village to went out in war.
Mary, who tried to stop them from leaving her, knew from the minute they left she not going to see her husband again.

The same night she had a dream were she saw her husband die, and she had right, because when the men came home again after some weeks in war Jaybird wasn't with them.
But she hadn´t the time to mourned her husband more then some days before the next horrible thing happened.

The white men from the village on the other side of the lake had heard about the war and came with their army to the Indian village.
They demanded the Indians to hand out the warriors, and also the white woman (Mary) whom they had heard lived in the village.
If they didn´t leave this people to the white men before the dawn, they had promise to come back and kill them all.

The same night Mary and the warriors leaved the village...

Agnes woke up to the real world for just some hours before she again fell asleep.
This time it had gone 14 years since the last time, and Mary lived a happy life with Jaybird and her two children Black Fox and Speckled Bird in an Indian village.

Everyone in the village had big respect for her, because she was a Powwow (medical woman,)
and she had learned a lot about different kinds of diseases that had come with the White men over the years.
But the biggest thing that made her to a respected woman was because she had the gift to look into the future.

So the fear of war that doesn't should come to the village in many month had already came into Marys' mind, and she doesn't felt well about it.
She was afraid of the White mens' cruelty, and she knew that the Indians thought that they had more power then the actually had.
But when she was trying to warn her people for the White mens' strength the young Indians (one of them her own son) didn't listen and just went on with their talk about how weak...

Ett anspråkslöst förslag är skriven av Domprosten och Satirikern Jonathan Swift.
Texten handlar om ett av de, enligt Swift, största samhällsproblem som präglade kungadömet Irland under denna tid, det stora antalet Obehövda barn.

Swift menade nämligen att kungadömets ekonomi inte på långa vägar kunde försörja det stora antal barnfödslar som skedde i landet, och att de istället fick drälla omkring i hasorna av deras mödrar som dagarna i ända fick tigga allmosor på gatorna.
Swift poängterar att eftersom det inte gick att dra någon nytta av dessa barn, framförallt inte de som fortfarande var under sex års, så kunde adel och annat fint folk istället få ta del av dem på ett så kallat smakfullt sätt.

Så genom att modern under barnets första år såg till att göda den lille rejält med bröstmjölk var den vid ett års ålder så pass tjock att den skulle kunna räcka till en tvårättes middag utan problem.
Swift menade att man kunde göra mycket gott av ett litet saftigt...