Mothering on Perilous

by Lucy S. Furman

CONTENTS

1. [Arrival on Perilous]
2. [Getting Acquainted]
3. [Acquiring a Family]
4. [War, not Peace]
5. [Getting Better Acquainted]
6. [A Trade and Other Matters]
7. [Heroes and Hero Worship]
8. [Dress, Chivalry and the Trojan War]
9. [More Trading, and some Family History]
10. [About Mothers]
11. [Over on Trigger]
12. [The Fightingest Boy]
13. [Around the Fire]
14. [The Visit Home, and the Funeral Occasion]
15. [Trouble on Trigger and Elsewhere]
16. [Filial Piety and Croup]
17. [Blessings and Hatings]
18. [Christmas Anticipations]
19. [Christmas and Danger]
20. [War and Worse on Trigger]
21. [Suspense]
22. [The "Eech," and Tragedy]
23. [Despair, and Budding Romance]
24. [The Babe]
25. [Change and Growth]
26. ["Marvles" and Marvels]
27. [Transformation]
28. ["Keeps"]
29. [Liberty and New Life]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

• [“When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?”]
• [“My two assistants abandoned work to stare open-mouthed at him.”]
• [“'Here is Keats back again,--he has got to stay with you women and get l'arning if it kills him dead!'”]
• [“'Genealogical' and 'irreconcilable' were child's play to him, 'incomprehensibility,' a bagatelle.”]
• [“I sat wondering what if anything would be the proper literary milk for my babes.”]
• [“The table was overturned, chairs were flying, bedlam had broken loose.”]
• [“'By dogs, now, did you ever see anybody look as good as me?'”]
• [“'Just feel my muscle,' he said, 'Oh, I'm so nervy!'”]
• [“'Fight, dogs, you haint no kin, 'F you kill one another, taint no sin!'”]
• [“'That's where I keep lookout of moonlight nights when war is on.'”]
• [“As I looked, I said to myself over and over, 'Is it possible this is a slayer of men, an eluder and defier of the law?'”]
• [“'That 'ere little Iry is a-giving Jason the best whipping down in the stable lot ever you seed.'”]
• [“Not until she got out of the tall weeds, and into the branch, was the joyful discovery made that nine little new pigs followed her closely and shamefacedly.”]
• [“'I got a dead tree up the hollow I practice on all the time.'”]
• [“The first real snow yesterday, and the boys wild in consequence.”]
• [“'Blant he rushed on 'em like a robbed she-bear, routing 'em in no time.'”]
• [“'I allow they shot me up a little too, by these here rags on my head.'”]
• [“Blant caught the dying Rich in his arms.”]
• [“Dag gone me, he's got use enough for little Dilsey, by Ned!'”]
• [“I kotch him at it one time.”]
• [“'Take it, Joe, I refuse to touch it, I have shot my last shoot!'”]
• [“He sat in church the very picture of elegance, the real direction of his thoughts indicated by an occasional ardent glance across the aisle.”]
• [“'Well, dad burn your looks, where'd you git all them marvles you been selling?'”]
• [“Nucky's voice rang out sharp and clear ... 'Make for them spruce pines! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!'”]

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