Ezra Baxter Quotes

“Men-folks has got to stick together in the name o’ peace.”

“But he was a sound amalgam; sound as copper itself; and with something, too, of the copper’s softness.”

“But Penny’s bowels yearned over his son. He gave him something more than his paternity.”

“The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.”

“He found that the child stood wide-eyed and breathless before the miracle of bird and creature, of flower and tree, of wind and rain and sun and moon, as he had always stood.”