As a boy in Barbados, in a family of nine boys and a girl, he was told by his mother to pen up ducks two weeks before they were to be eaten and change their fish diet to corn, wheat and milk; when he forgot and did it too late, the cooked ducks still tasted of fish and could not be eaten, and he got a spanking.
Date (happened)
between 1910 and 1920
unresolved
- between 1910 and 1920
Place
Persons
Sources
Source
- I Am The True Vine ¶9 (May I tell you a story? When I was a boy, in the life in the little island of Barbados, we were a very large family — nine boys and a girl, my father, my mother, and my grandmother on my mother’s side.)