12 MR. LEE’S PREDICAMENT
by Owen Jones
Mr. Lee, or Old Man Lee as he was known locally had been feeling strange for weeks and, because the local community was so small and isolated, everybody else in the vicinity knew about it too. He had been to seek the advice of a local doctor, one of the old kind, not a modern medical doctor, and she had told him that his body’s temperature was out of balance, because something was affecting his blood.
The woman, the local Shaman, Mr. Lee’s aunty in fact, was still not quite sure of the cause, but she had promised that she would know about it in about twenty-four hours, if he left a couple of samples for her to study and came back when she sent for him. The Shaman handed Mr. Lee a clump of moss and a stone.
He knew what to do, because he had done i
