The mother

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) · 1973

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, BY J. J. LITTLE & IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK In the kitchen of the small thatched farmhouse the mother sat on a low bamboo stool behind the earthen stove and fed grass deftly into the hole where a fire burned beneath the iron cauldron. The blaze was but just caught and she moved a twig here, a handful of leaves there, and thrust in a fresh bit of the dried grass she had cut from the hillsides last autumn. In the corner of the kitchen as near as she could creep to the fire sat a very old and weazened woman, wrapped in a thick padded coat of bright red cotton stuff, whose edges showed under a patched coat o…

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