Looking for an old short story

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Eric Robinson - 11 Sep 2004 03:21 GMT

I read this one in high school 30 years go. (Required reading). Can't
remember name or author.

Female narrator talking about a boy she knew who was one of the few people
she had ever met with *integrity*. He was chopping wood to earn $ to buy his
mother gloves. It turned out the boy knew his mother was dead.

Does anyone recognize it? I would like to re-read it.

Thanks.

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Bill Bonde ( ``Soli Deo Gloria'' ) - 11 Sep 2004 04:31 GMT

> I read this one in high school 30 years go. (Required reading). Can't
> remember name or author.
>
> Female narrator talking about a boy she knew who was one of the few people
> she had ever met with *integrity*. He was chopping wood to earn $ to buy his
> mother gloves. It turned out the boy knew his mother was dead.

Was he really going to use the money to buy crack cocaine and whores?

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"That's one of the tragedies of this life, that the men who are most in

need of a beating up are always enormous." -+Preston Sturges, "The Palm

Beach Story"

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John Ramsay - 11 Sep 2004 07:24 GMT

> I read this one in high school 30 years go. (Required reading). Can't
> remember name or author.
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>
> Thanks.

"A Mother in Manville" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

She also wrote "The Yearling" and the
very good film "Cross Creek" is all
about her.

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Looking for an old short story