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The Story.* A country carpenter—tall, inarticulate, muscled like a bison —marries a horse-breeder's daughter and moves in from Huntington, L. I., to hammer up frame houses in Brooklyn, the lustily sprawling community of 1823. His wife, Louisa, bears nine children in quiet, capable fecundity, expressing through motherhood and housewifery certain deep stirrings that are incommunicable to her husband.
Her strong little sons move freely about the town, one in particular, Walt, the second oldest, bringing home much news of teamsters and ferryboatmen,...
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