查理.哈斯克尔去世时,留下了妻子和九个孩子。他们靠一小块土地为生,住在一所有四间屋的房子里。约翰是家里的长子,所以他的母亲告诉他,他必须亲自承担起照顾全家的责任,那时他十六岁。约翰到镇里最有钱的人——法官多恩那儿去要一美元,那是法官买约翰父母的玉米时欠的钱。法官多恩把钱给了他,然后说,约翰的 When she died, Charlie Hasker left her wife and nine children. They live on a small piece of land and live in a house of all four houses. John was the eldest son in the family, so his mother told him he had to take on the responsibility of caring for the whole family when he was sixteen. John went to the richest man in the town - Judge Donne - for a dollar, the money the judge owed him when buying John’s parents’ corn. Judge Donne gave the money to him and said, John