Set among the mountain people of North Carolina, this novel follows the Jucklin family through quarrels, courtships and church Sundays in a backwoods neighbourhood. Dialect talk, rough wisdom and homespun philosophy fill its pages, and the plot thickens when young Alf disappears into the woods one Sunday while the old people are at church.
One of Opie Read’s best-selling regional novels of the 1890s, full of dialect humour and Southern rural colour. Download the free EPUB.