She’s fairly sure they won’t care about the result – it will only start another distressing discussion about how Aboriginal people don’t have the right to vote. As she walks across the mission to home, she sees a group of kids huddled around something and squealing. She starts to walk faster. When she realises Jessie is throwing up across the way, she starts to run towards her. ‘What’s wrong?’ Mary asks, bending down and pulling the child’s hair back. She smells the vomit before she sees it all over Jessie’s clothes. Jessie has tears streaming down her face and when Mary wipes them away, she notices her sister is burning up. ‘What’s she been eating?’ she asks Dottie and Betty frantically. Dottie shrugs. ‘Dunno,’ she says. ‘She ate too many of those nuts from the pine trees,’ Betty dobs. ‘She’s probably sick because she didn’t want to share.’ She bends down and whispers in her sister’s ear, ‘Mum always says to share. See what happens when you’re a greedy guts?’ ‘Stop it, Betty.
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