The Mother - Norman Duncan - Bog

When Dick Slade died in the big red tenement of Box Street, he died as other men die, complaining of the necessity; and his son, in the way of all tender children, sorely wept: not because his father was now lost to him, which was beyond his comprehension, but because the man must be put in a grave-a cold place, dark and suffocating, being underground, as the child had been told.