![]() ![]() Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a 'Life of Jesse James,' which I remember as one of the most satisfactory books I have ever read. We went all the way in day-coaches, becoming more sticky and grimy with each stage of the journey. He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a new world. Jake's experience of the world was not much wider than mine. ![]() ![]() I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the 'hands' on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather. I was ten years old then I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska. I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. ![]()
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