Status Updates From God's Little Acre

"IT LOOKED TO Ty Ty as if there would be trouble before evening."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 138)

"WHEN THEY REACHED Augusta in the early evening, Buck stopped the car at the curb on Broad Street near Sixth. Nothing had been said about stopping downtown, and Ty Ty leaned forward to ask Buck and Shaw why they had stopped. Jim Leslie’s house was on The Hill, several miles away."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 108)

"THEY HAD BEEN at work since sunrise in the new crater, and at eleven o’clock the heat was blistering. Buck and Shaw had little to say to Will. They had never been able to get along together, and even the prospect of turning up a shovelful of yellow nuggets any moment did not serve to bind them any closer."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 97)

"...Do you know why they’re called brokers?” “Why?” “Because they keep the farmers broke all the time. They lend a little money, and then they take the whole damn crop. Or else they suck the blood out of a man by running the price up and down forcing him to sell."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 74)

"He did not remember anything else until the sun woke him by shining in his face. It was nearly nine o’clock then, and there was not a sound in the house."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 54)

'BUCK WALKED BACK and forth between the porch and the car impatiently. “Let’s get started, Pa,” he said. “We’ll be tramping around in the swamp all night if we don’t get an early start. I don’t like the swamps much after dark, anyway.”'

Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 34)

"WHEN TY TY and Pluto reached the house, they found the boys resting after their work. All the tires were tight and hard, and the radiator was filled to overflowing. Everything seemed to be ready for the trip."

-Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre (pg. 22)