Chapter 1
_ CHAPTER I
"Hi hum," observed Mr. Joel Macomber, putting down his knife and fork with obvious reluctance and tilting back his chair. "Hi hum-a-day! Man, born of woman, is of few days and full of--of somethin‘, I forget what--George, what is it a man born of woman is full of?"
George Kent, putting down his knife and fork, smiled and replied that he didn‘t know. Mr. Macomber seemed shocked.
"_Don‘t know?_" he repeated. "Tut, tut! Dear me, dear me! A young feller that goes to prayer meetin‘ every Friday night--or at least waits outside the meetin‘-house door every Friday night--and yet he don‘t remember his Scriptur‘ well enough to know what man born of woman is full of? My soul and body! What‘s the world comin‘ to?"
Nobody answered. The six Macomber children, Lemuel, Edgar, Sarah-Mary, Bemis, Aldora and Joey, ages ranging from fourteen to two and a half, kept on eating in silence--or, if not quite in silence, at least without speaking. They had been taught not to

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