“The children were bilious for a few days, and inclined to dislike each other: but they accepted the change in their lives practically without noticing it. It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty of distinguishing between disaster and the ordinary course of their lives.” ChildrenKidsChangeDisastersCatastrophes Book:A High Wind in Jamaica Source: A High Wind in Jamaica