1 At that moment the father came out of the hole in the bank.
2 He saw his father's sledge overturned, with his mother and sisters.
3 Antonia's father uncovered one of his long bony legs and rubbed it rhythmically.
4 Antonia and her father went off hand in hand, and I buttoned up my jacket and raced my shadow home.
5 Antonia and Yulka came running out, wearing little rabbit-skin hats their father had made for them.
6 Though Antonia loved her father more than she did anyone else, she stood in awe of her elder brother.
7 He used to help my father cut Christmas trees for me in Virginia, and he had not forgotten how much I liked them.
8 Her father put his hand on her hair, but she caught his wrist and lifted it carefully away, talking to him rapidly.
9 Mrs. Shimerda and Antonia always deferred to him, though he was often surly with them and contemptuous toward his father.
10 I was so annoyed that I felt coldly even toward Antonia and listened unsympathetically when she told me her father was not well.
11 One afternoon Antonia and her father came over to our house to get buttermilk, and lingered, as they usually did, until the sun was low.
12 One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
13 I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.
14 I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the 'hands' on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather.'
15 When Antonia and her father got into the wagon, I entreated grandmother to let me go with them: I would gladly go without my supper, I would sleep in the Shimerdas' barn and run home in the morning.
16 I did not believe that my dead father and mother were watching me from up there; they would still be looking for me at the sheep-fold down by the creek, or along the white road that led to the mountain pastures.
17 Antonia explained that her father meant to build a new house for them in the spring; he and Ambrosch had already split the logs for it, but the logs were all buried in the snow, along the creek where they had been felled.
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