Excerpt from Mothers to Men "Daddy!" The dark was so thick with hurrying rain that the child's voice was drowned. So he splashed forward a few steps in the mud and puddles of the highway and plucked at the coat of the man tramping before. The man took a hand from a pocket and stooped somewhat to listen, still plodding ahead. "Daddy! Its the hole near my biggest toe. My biggest toe went right through that hole an it chokes my toe awful." The man suddenly squatted in the mud, presenting a broad, scarcely distinguishable back. "Climb up," he commanded. The boy wavered. His body ached with weariness, his feet were sore and cold, something in his head was numb. But in a moment he ran on, two steps or three, past the man. "Nope," he said, "I'm seeing if I could walk all the way. I could yet. I just told you 'bout my toe, daddy, cause I had to talk about it." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.