"The Pink Cart."

A boy of about fifteen tells of the visit of a "gipsy" family who are friends with his grandfather. Their teenaged daughter is deathly ill: "Sometimes as she bent over the cat her hair fell down in black tangles over her face and in the sudden jerks of her head as she tossed it back again, and in the gold flash of her earrings I would catch for an instant the flash of her own spirit and the spirit of her race before sickness and poverty had degraded them, wild, careless, proud, passionate-blooded." They promise to return in the spring, but he never sees them again. In John O'London's Weekly (February 18, 1933), The House with the Apricot and Two Other Tales (1933), Cut and Come Again (1935), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940).

ID: 
b64
Title: 
"The Pink Cart."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
10
Word Count: 
ca. 3120
Publisher: 
John O'London's Weekly
Year of Publication: 
1933
Topic: 
Boyhood
Document Type: 
First-Person Narratives