The Haws
THE members of the Haw family were not very different from those of the Acorn family. Why should they be? They had lived side by side in the same wood all their lives, and had grown up together under the same circumstances.
Their complexions were different, to be sure, but aside from this and the difference in the shape of their heads, they were built on exactly the same lines—round bodies, slender arms and legs.
Like the Acorn family some had perfectly stiff limbs, while others were provided with joints. The first were supposed to have rheumatism.
The only wonder is that they did not all have it, going about as they did, without any clothes, in all sorts of weather.