Armstid Children

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2019-07-31 14:10
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741
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Armstid Children
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Armstid Children
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Henry Armstid
Mrs. Armstid
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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The number of children born on the Armstid farm in Frenchman's Bend is either four or five. A character in "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" refers to them as "them chaps" (138), but at least one is a daughter: in "Spotted Horses," Ina May, the only one ever named, is twelve, and "big enough to take care of the little ones" while their mother is at Mrs. Littlejohn's nursing their father (178). Though unnamed, she plays the same role in The Hamlet. In Light in August there are five children, all born "in six years," and now "raised to man- and womanhood" (15).

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