![]() The Logans still have a mortgage on the second two hundred acres of land and have to pay taxes on all four hundred acres. Cassie's grandfather bought the family's first two hundred acres in 1887, and after he paid off the mortgage on that land bought two hundred more in 1918. The Logans' land had once belonged to the Grangers. The forest and the land beyond is part of Harlan Granger's ten-square-mile plantation. Cassie tells him that he will make them late to school, and she drags her feet in the dust until Stacey yells at her to stop because they promised their mother that they would arrive neat and clean.Īs they walk, the children pass an old oak tree that marks the boundary between their family's four hundred acres of land and the forest. It is his first day of school ever, and he walks very slowly and carefully to avoid getting the dust from the road on his shoes or corduroys. Cassie is annoyed that they must go to school on a "bright August-like October morning" and is even more annoyed that they must wear their Sunday clothes and shoes. ![]() ![]() Christopher-John, aged seven, is a cheerful boy who keeps to himself. Stacey, aged twelve, is grouchy because he will be in the class taught by their mother. ![]() Cassie Logan and her three brothers (Stacey, Christopher-John, and Little Man) walk down a dusty road in rural Mississippi on their way to the first day of school in the fall of 1933. ![]()
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