" Kaarlo, that gold rush is for fools with no sense, can't you see that we're barely making ends meet, isn't it enough that there's a new baby to feed you might as well just shoot your poor mother it'll be the same thug as letting her lose a son to some foolishness."
"Do you think Pappa will send Grandmother away? I wish per to Wilbert.
Nah, he whispers back, she's stuck here like a cow in the tidelands. "

― Jennifer L. Holm , Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1)