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...Pickett...
...takes you back to his graduation from a college in Texas and forth upon the moonlit road he chose to follow into the world. Soon you meet the Chicken-Wagon Family, camped for the night by a pine-fringed Louisiana bayou, and thereafter their story and Jim Pickett...
Which they all did, by slow stages, Jim Pickett teaching grave little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
...Fippanys could not have stayed there long if Jim Pickett had not paid down all his savings at the public auction. After that they lived there always. Mr. Fippany found some trucking to do. Jim got on the Transcript. Addie went to school. Mrs. Fippany took in, not boarders, but "remunerative guests...
...they seldom ring true. Sir James Barrie can do them, child that he is. Bonn Byrne's wistful blarney gets astonishing effects. Christopher Morley's vein is more magical; the tail of his kindly eye is almost mystically acute. This Barry Benefield, whom one cannot help identifying with Jim Pickett, seems to have no unusual gifts or tricks. Yet he is quite as irresistible as the others. An unforgettable book...