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Edna is leaving the west for the east coast. She is on her way home.

The Kid has to kill his horse in the desert. He tries surviving by taking very little with him to continue his journey on foot. Along the way he is parched and barely surviving. They try to get him to return to the ranch. He does what he wants

The Kid leaves Texas to find his father in New Mexico Territory who is ailing. The Boyd family is after revenge.

The Hell Bent Kid was selected by the Western Writers of America as one of the twenty-five best Western novels ever written.
It was adapted into the 1958 movie From Hell to Texas.

Tot is our Kid (18). Mild manner and can handle a rifle better than most. Tot killed a man from the Boyd family in self defense.

Just revisiting the book of Psalms.

The Singing:
“that elusive melody to whose rhythm all nature moves.”

Spring is definitely my favorite time of the year. All the fresh new smells of rain, flowers, first cuttings of grass.
Olson tells about nature in the lake country of northern Minnesota and adjoining Canada on his endeavors of walks in the lake and forest. Running across a leasurely squirrel in the trees and the chickadees singing. The smell of the nature warming under the suns rays of the start of spring.

Lee said "Help him...Let him be free...Bless him!"
Adam whispered word seemed to hang in the air: "Timshel"
His eyes closed and he slept.

Adam takes his new wife to California where he works with Samuel an expert on the land and purchases a run down ranch. He hires what he thinks if a Chinaman (but actually his ancestry is). Cathy tries to abort the child and in the end after delivering twin boys a few days later she tells Adam to throw the boys in his well she was leaving. Adam thought for a monment she was going to stay.

Not sure what Adam and Charles are about but it just sickens me. Good thing it is fiction!

Cyrus was a tall tale provider. His military adventures that he retold were fabricated. The only exception was he did not change his rank. All of these tales he learned from charts and textbooks. He treated his children as if the were in the army. By the time they were in grade school they were taught close-order drill and training them marksmanship skills.

Cyrus soon married Alice his second wife. She covered everything he needed someone to take care of Adam keep house cook. Alice's greatest virture was she never said anything unless directly asked.

We meet Adam who was born on the farm by his mother who was working the farm by herself as Cyrus Trask was serving in the military where he lost his leg by a heavy slug. Mrs Trask was very religious and when Cyrus brought her an infection her God was a man of vengeance. She scarificed herself.

We meet Samuel Hamilton from Ireland. He was honest. Love is what brought him to California. A big man blacksmith, carpenter and woodcarver. Homesteader of 1760 acres of harsh and dry land. Blacksmithing was what kept him a float.
Liza his Irish wife had a moral code. She gave Samuel nine children.

Part One/Chapter One
The frame of the story is the Salinas Valley in California. The description of the grasses and flowers are discribed as the memory of odors is very rich. (from childhood) Gabilan Mountains, Salinas River in the spring. The land baren from farms and people.

I am skipping the Introduction, Select Bibliography, Chronology and Prologue. Have not read anything from him before so would like to have an open mind that has no bias.

She argues that the state should pay wages to mothers and wives because this would allow such women to have an economic freedom that would benefit everyone.

She suggests that women should form their own institutions and write their own manifestos because literature is one of the few professions that has not traditionally excluded all women.

Woolf discusses the three proposals in the unnamed man's original letter.

The discrepancy in pay between men and women is due to atmosphere.

“ Miss ” is attached do not seem to enter the four-
figure zone.

The cat is out of the bag; and it is a Tom.

She donates the second guinea to the womens society with the condition that every qualified person is helped.

First Guinea is spent!

She suggests that women's perspectives are different and their attempts to prevent war must be different as well.

Found this interesting:
She states middle class women the "daughters of educated men." Saying that this group is only able to have an influence in industries that are controlled by men.

She finds their differences is what stalled her in replying before three years had passed.
The question quite difficult since their backgrounds of education are so different. This will cause how the view preventing the war not the same.

Her thesis that men view war as a profession, a way to excite themselves, and a way to prove their manliness.

A remarkable a letter from a man asking a woman 'How in her opinion
war can be prevented ?'

Charles and Mary Musgrove which Anne had to help Mary so Charles could go hunting as Mary was not feeling well. What a way to spend an anniversary was Anne's thoughts.

Elinor and Edward Ferrars on their second anniversary and Edward wanting another child a sibling for Henry. Elinor's sister Marianne and Colonel Brandon first anniversary is coming up soon and the two sisters plan a ball for both celebrations.