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Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.  \nP rivate Jediah Cromwell was homesick for the first time since his in  \nduction into the Army. If he had gotten homesick on any of at least a dozen other occasions during his first two weeks in the service, he might never have gotten beyond the induction center. But the wondersand delights of his first venture beyond the almost inaccessible West Virginia hills of his birth had kept him too awed and interested to think about home.  \nWhen Cletus Miller headed up the trail to Bluebird Gulch, Ma felt him coming around the bend below the waterfall a mile across the gorge. She laid down her skinning knife and wiped her hands clean of the blood of the rabbits Jed had brought in earlier in the morning.  \n\"Sonny,\" she called to Jed, \"trouble's acoming.\"  \nJediah crossed the corn patch to her side. \"What kinda trouble, Ma?\"  \n\"Cletus Miller's comin',\" Ma Cromwell said. \"He ain't been up here since the week afore your Pa died. I don't know what it is but it's bound to be trouble.\"  \nA few minutes later Miller hallooed from the bottom of the garden patch, then trudged up to the cabin.  \n\"Set and rest, Cletus,\" Ma said. \"Sonny, fetch Cletus a coolin' dip.\" Jed ambled down to the spring sluice and dippered out a pint of clear, mountain water.  \n\"Got mail fer you,\" Cletus said, waving an envelope. \"Guvermint mail. Fer Sonny.\"  \nTwo weeks later, Jediah swung down the mountain to Owl Creek, carrying a small sack with his good clothes and shoes in it. The draft notice was stuffed into his overall pockets along with biscuits and meat Ma had insisted he take.  \n\"Go along now, Sonny,\" she had directed him, \"and don't you fret none about me. The corn's 'most ready. You got a good supply of firewood in, more'n enought to last me all winter. If your guvermint need us Cromwells to fight, then I reckon its our bounden duty. Your grandsire and greatgrandsire both wuz soldiers and if'n your Pa hadn't gone and gotten his leg busted and twisted afore the guvermint called him I reckon he'd have been one, too. I've learned you all I can and you can read 'n write 'n do sums. Just mind your manners and come on home when they don't need you no more.\"  \nIn Owl Creek the first real part of the excitement hit Jed. He had been as far as Paulsburg, twenty miles farther and that was almost as big as  \nthe county seat at Madison. Now he was going to go even beyond Madison—right to the city. And then maybe the Army would send him more places.  \nThe Army did.  \nEverything had been wonderful, almost overwhelming, from the moment he boarded a bus for the first time in his life until he arrived at Fort McGruder. He could hardly believe the wealth of the government in issuing him so many clothes and giving him so much personal gear. And while the food wasn't what Ma would have cooked, there was lots of it. He liked the other recruits who had ridden down to McGruder with him, even though a couple of the city fellows had been kind of teasing.  \nHe liked the barracks although his bunk mattress wasn't as soft as Ma's eiderdown comforts. He liked everything—until the sergeant had cussed at him this afternoon.  \nNow Jed lay on his bunk and counted the springs on the uppe","cbCaikSBVu63faIf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikSBVu63faIf","pdf",125887,23,"English","# Sonny\n## Induction and early service\n## Family warnings and homesickness\n## Barracks life and disruptions","[{\"question\":\"Who is the main character in Sonny, and what happens to him at the start?\",\"answer\":\"The main character is Private Jediah Cromwell (“Jed”). He is inducted into the Army and later travels to Fort McGruder for his first real period of service.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Jed’s family influence his mindset during induction?\",\"answer\":\"His mother, Ma Cromwell, warns him about trouble and gives him practical guidance before he leaves. 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