そばかすのあらすじ

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A nameless boy asks for a job

   Freckles comes down the corduroy road at the edge of the Limberlost, looking like a tramp but wanting only honest work. He hears the men at the lumber camp and smells their supper. Loneliness sweeps over him, and he walks straight in to ask for the Boss.

   The cook says the boy has only one hand. Freckles flushes and holds out his empty sleeve. The Boss, a Scotsman named McLean, says sharply that he will interview his own man. That small word, my, reaches the boy's hungry heart. McLean explains the job. Freckles must walk the wire boundary of two thousand acres of costly timber twice a day, among rattlesnakes, high water and thieves.

   Then comes the boy's story. He was left as a baby on the steps of a charity home in Chicago, and he has no name. McLean hires him and gives him his own father's name, James Ross McLean. Until someone with a legal claim comes, he says, the boy is his. A job offered in trust can change a life faster than any amount of pity.

2. 2

   Fear is the first test of the swamp

   The next morning McLean outfits Freckles with boots, wire tools and a revolver, and arranges for him to board with Duncan, the head teamster, and his wife.

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3. 3

   Birds and Mother Duncan feed his heart

   Winter strips the Limberlost bare, and the birds begin to leave for lack of food.

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4. 4

   A feather and a frog send him to books

   By spring Freckles is strong and restless, filled with a longing he cannot name.

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5. 5

   Wessner's bribe meets an Irish temper

   Duncan builds Freckles a wooden case for his books and tells him that single trees in the swamp are worth a thousand dollars.

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6. 6

   The Swamp Angel parts the wild roses

   One hot afternoon the bushes part at the entrance to his room, and Freckles sees a face he takes for an angel.

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7. 7

   Women shoot straight and a girl outwits thieves

   Wessner returns with Black Jack to cut a tree while Freckles is busy with the Bird Woman and the Angel.

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8. 8

   Belonging is made, not inherited

   Freckles begins as a boy who owns nothing, not even a name.

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9. 9

   Courage, class and a love across the gap

   The second great theme is courage, and the book gives it many shapes.

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10. 10

    A story told through nature and feeling

    The author tells the story in a warm, direct voice, with a clear love of her subject.

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