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Harsh boyhood expereince. Tale of a boy left by his mother's remarriage and death to the care of his stern step-father. His sensitive nature is crushed by the man's harshness and his reason finally goes after a heavy beating and a night locked in a closet with rats. Painting gives him some relief but he dies as a young man leaving his step-father to remorse. Scenes of hell and imprisonment imagined by the boy are vivid. (PB)
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