# The mother

Author: Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68577

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+mother+Buck&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the kitchen of the small thatched farmhouse the mother sat on a low bamboo stool behind the earthen stove and fed grass deftly into the hole where a fire burned beneath the iron cauldron. The blaze was but just caught and she moved a twig here, a handful of leaves there, and thrust in a fresh bit of the dried grass she had cut from the hillsides last autumn. In the corner of the kitchen as near as she could creep to the fire sat a very old and weazened woman, wrapped in a thick padded coat of bright red cotton stuff, whose edges showed under a patched coat of blue she wore over it. She was half blind with a sore disease of the eyes, and this had well-nigh sealed her eyelids together. B...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mother-68577/chapters/17/index.md)