Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

It is better to remember our love as it was in the springtime.

thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.