Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Mon, 2016-10-17 04:23
Jack Houston's mother spoiled him before her untimely death. She "had taught him to write his name before she died at last and so gave up trying to compel his father to send him to the school" (236).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Mon, 2016-10-17 04:01
The orphaned Lucy Pate was raised by this remote relation; she imbued Lucy with the "domestic skill" of a "country heritage" and the values of "constancy and devotion" (227).