[Gutenberg 44150] • The Jack-Knife Man
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- Authors
- Butler, Ellis Parker
- Publisher
- Century Co.
- Tags
- united states -- social life and customs -- fiction , widows -- fiction , orphans -- fiction , fathers and sons -- fiction , river boats -- fiction
- Date
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.58 MB
- Lang
- en
Old Peter Lane is content to make a bare living cutting firewood and whittling kitchen tools and toys for the people in the nearby village. Then a dying woman stumbles to his shanty boat during a storm and Peter finds himself the unwitting caretaker for her lame three-year-old son. He must make a respectable home for the boy or see him taken away and put to work by self-appointed "social workers."