"Winslow mills" became the fad.
Jed built his little shop, or the first installment of it.
Mrs.Floretta Winslow died when her son was forty.

A merciful release, Captain Sam and the rest called it, but to Jed it was a stunning shock.

He had no one to take care of now except himself and he did not know what to do.

He moped about like a deserted cat.

Finally he decided that he could not live in the old house where he was born and had lived all his life.