PurcellChapter 17 The Whale
Marjorie Purcell expected little from the brief period between the end of picking and the Christmas break. The new year was the time for promotions and any new policies to be acted on. The long break for picking was the time for those policies to be decided. At best, the brief period was a time for reviewing the previous year’s learning and spiking it down in the -- always slippery -- minds of the students. After services on the cold and wet first Sunday after school started, Ab came up to...