The literary digest . CorporalFess Whitaker (Standard Publishing Co.,Louisville), is the naive work of an uned-ucated man. The author shifts from firstto third person, drops into the mountainfashion of speech, and sometimes uses thepeculiar vocabularies of places and tradesin most perplexing fashion. Yet his storyreveals a personality as typically Americanin its way as Lincolns or his own adventures, Whitaker tellsus of many curious dwellers in the moun-tains and much of the now vanishingcharacteristic ways of the people. Whitakers mother was a strong andversatile woman, as
The literary digest . CorporalFess Whitaker (Standard Publishing Co.,Louisville), is the naive work of an uned-ucated man. The author shifts from firstto third person, drops into the mountainfashion of speech, and sometimes uses thepeculiar vocabularies of places and tradesin most perplexing fashion. Yet his storyreveals a personality as typically Americanin its way as Lincolns or his own adventures, Whitaker tellsus of many curious dwellers in the moun-tains and much of the now vanishingcharacteristic ways of the people. Whitakers mother was a strong andversatile woman, as she had need to be,being left a widow with her eight smallchildren, Fred and Fess, the twins Littleand Less, Gid and Jim, and the girlsJulia and Susan. Fesss memories of hisearly home life are fascinating. Thefirst incident he remembers seems to bethat of Sol Potter, who had come to theWhitaker home with other men to do somelogging work, and at dinner was oatinbig onion blades, got choked and got his j^^riyviyr-.
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