[His feet hanging out of the back of the wagon that had held the coffin]

[His luck was bad]

[He withdrew from the game and sat alone against the barn]

[As she turned to her turkey-slicing]

[The new preacher, for whom the party was made]

[The first long dress]

["Dickey, Dickey, for gracious sake, keep still"]

["Did you know my dad was a soldier?"]

[During the next two hours the boy wandered on the prairie]

["Mary Pennington, aged two years, three months, and ten days"]