...and moral reach permitted"; yet, he concludes, "there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and 1 had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps" (7). The statements of Mrs. Hale, even in the account she gives at the end of the book, described as...

...the folks. There warn't ever anybody but Ethan. Fust his father—then his mother—then his wife." Harmon chuckled sardonically. "That's so. He had to...as the nucleus about which I grouped my subsequent information: "Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters." Before my own time there was up I had...

...many winters. Most of the smart ones get away." Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his 20 mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible...subsequent inferences: "Guess he's been in Starkfield 25 too many winters." Before my own time there was up I had learned to know what that meant. Yet I...

...and care for the folks. There warn't ever anybody but Ethan. Fust his father - then his mother - then his wife.' 'And then the smash-up?' Harmon chuckled...'Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters.' meant. Yet I had come in the degenerate day of trolley, bicycle and rural delivery,7 when communication...

...of his cheek. "Guess he's been in Starkfield too many winters. Most of the smart ones get away." 15 Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his...subsequent inferences: "Guess he's been in Starkfield too 20 many winters." Before my own time there was up I had learned to know what that meant. Yet I had...

...rural characters, this urban narrator admits he is making up large chunks of the narrative. "Although Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental...that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps" (6); and so he fills those gaps in as best he can. He imagines a story that he stitches together from...