Contents 1
A Day with Father 1
Father on Horseback 9
Father is Firm with His Illnesses 15
Father Wakes up the Village 22
Father Chooses not to be Killed 32
Father Gets a Cook 41
Father Feels Starved 45
Father Stamps on the Floor 48
The Gift of Song 51
The Finest Instrument 56
Father Tries to Make Mother Like Figures 67
Father and His Hard-Rocking Ship 77
Father Has Trouble with the Land of Egypt 83
Father Teaches Me to be On Time 91
Father and the Twenty-Third Psalm 97
Mother and the Armenian 100
Father Opens My Mail 104
Father Sends Me to the World's Fair 110
Father's Old Trousers 118
Father Lets in the Telephone 124
Father Isn't Much Help 131
Father Sews on a Button 138
Father and the Third Wife 142
Father among the Potted Palms 148
Father Has a Bad Night 156
Father and His Other Selves 161
Father Finds Other People in the House 165
Father and His Rug 170
Father and the French Court 176
Father Plans to Get Out 180