Excerpt from Belles Lettres, 1935, Vol. 1: An Annual Anthology of Student Writing

The Moores had now lived in their little boarded-up home for a long time. Ma remembered when she and Pa had come there, she didn't know exactly how long ago but it had been about twenty years. Cordy, her oldest child, had been married for four years, some people said. Ma thought it must be nice to be learned so a body could count and write. If Ma could have written, she would have written a letter to her home in Tennessee. They would have been so surprised and proud. They wouldn't have been able to read it of course, but they could have shown it to their friends and maybe Daphne, with her high sounding name and high handed ways, would have seen it. Ma wondered how much it would 'cost to have a letter written. If Pa had only let Tommy go to that school at Pine Fork, he could have written a letter for her, but Pa said that it was a bad thing to let your kids learn more than you yourself knew. Anyway Pa guessed Tommy would get along all right. Why look at Pa. He had come from Tennessee with a wife and a baby without a cent in the world. He didn't have a cent now, but he had a roof over his head and a couple of acres cleared on the moun tain side and a mule and some cows besides ten children. He had always managed to feed and clothe them. What more could a man want?

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