It’s a story for children, but not for today, it’s sort of racist without knowing it, maybe, like that there’s only true stories in the Bible and mum doesn’t like the Jew girl because maybe she “had not been taught to respect the truth” and Dot saying it’s better to be “hung” than marry a black man… so yeah, not a contemporary story, or something to read to children now.
Parlin family. Prudy is a little angel, Susy a good girl and little Dotty the naughty one, when she’s angry she screams and shouts, has a very bad temper and is disobedient. After they lose their house to fire, they go to a cousin’s house. Johnny is worse than her.
There’s a bad adventure with five children on a boat, with bad weather, but they’re rescued from the horrible situation.
Johnny does a bad trick with a Jack-o-lantern:very scacred of the yellow ghost, and not well for days… and it’s the end. Just like that. Maybe they’ll say more in another story, I read there are six, 1at her grandmother’s, 2at home, 3out west, 4at play, 5at school, 6fly away.
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