Family Matters
This person gets married to Hairy Bovitz in Chapter 14.
Who is Mary?
This celebration involves making noise outside newlyweds' house.
What is a shivaree?
This is Ma's home remedy for sore throat.
What is a hot, wet wool sock covered by a dry wool sock?
The subject Cuss excels at and enjoys in school.
What is Latin?
This is why Matt says he'll be sending less money home.
What is Emmeline is expecting a baby/he got married?
This is what Hairy whispers to Cuss and Philip about Mary in August.
What is she's expecting a baby?
Hairy throws these to the children during the shivaree instead of the usual pennies.
What are nickels?
This is Ma's remedy for high fever.
What is wrapping in a soaking-wet bedsheet?
This is the gift Mary gives Cuss for his thirteenth birthday.
What is a poetry book?
This is what the company store requires to extend credit.
What is having a miner in the family?
Matt marries this person, who leaves town secretly with her mother.
Who is Emmeline?
The name of the band that plays at Mary's wedding.
Who are the Pinin' Miners?
This is the illness that kills Ma's pigs.
What is the scours?
This is what Father Duval does besides being a priest.
What is teaching Latin to the seventh graders?
The store clerk agrees to sell this to the family on credit even though they don't qualify.
What is coal?
Joey surprises the family by having this type of sweetheart.
Who is a Spanish/Mexican girl named Veronica?
This is the gift Ma gives to Mary as a wedding present.
What is Matt and Joey's bed?
This is Dr. Moody's profession in the town.
What is the company doctor?
This is what Pa taught Ma when they were first married.
What is how to read?
This is what worries Cuss about his future after seventh grade.
What is having to quit school to work?
Ma feels better about Joey's choice of wife when she learns this about Veronica's family.
What is she has two brothers who are priests?
Ma insists on this type of wedding ceremony for Mary.
What is a noon High Mass wedding?
This is the serious illness Philip develops.
What is meningitis?
This is what Ma hopes Cuss might become because of his intelligence.
What is a priest?
This job is suggested as a possible future for Cuss instead of continuing school.
What is a mechanic for the railroad?