![]() ![]() Because of their mother’s depression at the loss of their father, she pays little attention to the things that her children do to keep the farm going and the family together. Lyddie and Charlie are just grateful for their help. They are kinder than their aunt and uncle, although their mother disapproves of them for being abolitionists and, in her mind, heathens. Lyddie and her brother Charlie, who is ten, more often turn to their Quaker neighbors, the Stevenses, for help. The children’s aunt and uncle, Clarissa and Judah live nearby, but they are of little help, full of fire-and-brimstone talk. Lyddie helps her mother to take care of their farm in Vermont and the younger children, but they are very poor, and her mother has given up hope of their father returning home. Thirteen-year-old Lyddie’s father left home to go West and seek his fortune, and he hasn’t been heard of since. ![]()
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