Westinghouse Patent Pend. and Friends

The morning of his eighteenbirthday Westinghouse Patent Pend. Ainstruther hears his Ma say, “Wes, break a leg.”

He realizes it is carnie talktelling him to leave the desolate homestead to go out in the world to make hisfortune and send it back, that the other eight kid’s ration of corn meal mushand goat’s milk not be permanently interrupted.

Unschooled he is well read fromhis Uncle Abernathy, an Eng...