New Generation Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...that cost a dollar at Cheap Nathan s, one shoddy coat, a flop hat, a banjo, two coon skins, and a Jew s harp. Deely gave him a short pencil someone had given her while she was at school. He had no overcoat, no rain coat, no underwear. He had never possessed such articles. When he left Deely walked with him to the yard fence--there was no gate----and stood leaning against a corner and watching him as he walked away. Come home sometime, Ise. All right, Deely, I will. When he reached the top of the rise out the road he turned and saw her still standing there with her elbows resting on the top rail and her chin in her hands. Grizzly was sitting in his favorite lookout place on a flat top-rail looking out the road, shivering and whining. With this last scene in mind he went over the hill and disappeared. The winter months passed slowly. They were months of hard work, suffering and loneliness for little Deely. Her pappy had begun coming home drunk again, and now that Isom was away there was no one to act as a restraining influence. The old man tore-up--jack with everything on the place. Bad food and scolding were having their effect, and he was growing desperate. Deely kept the tube of the rifle picked full of ashes as her mother had done before her. But he never beat Deely; he merely cursed and scolded. He said to Old Taterheel one day, I ve seed them white lips too many times at night ever to hit the little gal agin. A baby was born to Sallie which soothed the old man s wrath for a time, but its cries of suffering caused by poor attention soon drove him to desperation again. As spring came on Deely began to suffer with a...