Word study

But even as that thought touched his mind he knew that for him only the shadow that none of the substance would be rootless and without any stake in the country to drift home

Sixteen children / and young people /were stricken with a mysterious fever, / and none of the familiar remidies /

The next day after school / Jess went down / and got the lumber he needed / carrying it a couple of boards at a time / to the creek bank