VOCABULARU Focus 1:

• The child was five when his father was drafted; and…326
• The Pumbertons were never known to shirk a duty.326
• A little white spot in a forest of white heads above the stiff pews.327
• Throughout the years the whole of Mapleton began to preen itself on its charity.327
• Everyone was a little baffled and a little ashamed.328
• The black kids from the slums of Boston who cussed and fought and made fun of him…328
• He went to a senior prom 329
• But he was a lucky chap. 329
• Claudina sang divinely and danced like a dryad. 330
• Claudina was playing whist. 331
• A native orchestra would play rattles and drums.332
• Some rather ederly musicians were in spats.332