A Poisonous Education

You are guests of Rev. Thomas & Isabella McCulloch, who have just come from a long carriage ride from Truro looking for lodging before you continue your travels in-land to the village of Amherst. You learn that Mr. McCulloch recently opened his doors to the children of the community to learn how to read and write. Your arrival marks the hour the pupils should begin their lessons in the cabin-school built just behind the humble brick cottage. The school day started like any other for the young pupils. Robbie McLeod, a young and mischievous pupil is caught making trouble with one of his fellow classmates and is sent to the house where Mrs. McCulloch oversees a proper punishment. Mrs. McCulloch, however, shows Robbie down to Mr. McCulloch's study to serve his punishment. Fifteen minutes goes by, and Mrs. McCulloch returns to check on the boy but finds him lying on the floor trembling uncontrollably. Mrs, McCulloch shouts for help while checking him and makes notes of the boys strange symptoms. Mrs. McCulloch suggests he must have eaten something. Mrs. McCulloch sends for Dr. James D.B. Fraser, local chemist and doctor on Water Street. A fellow classmate goes to fetch the good doctor but returns with bad news. The doctor is currently in Halifax tending patients and is more than a 5 day carriage ride away and cannot help! Rev. McCulloch instructs Mrs. McCulloch to put the boy up to bed to rest while he takes the family horse to find supplies at Dr. Fraser's apothecary. It is up to YOU to solve the mystery of what happened to wee Robbie McLeod and pose a cure before it is too late!