How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Got a new pet?" I inquired.
"Chicago people have pets," she said. "But there's a new litter living down in the cobhouse now, and I let 'em. They keep down the vermin. Don't need all of them though." (7.94)
Grandma Dowdel doesn't live by the kids' city ways; she doesn't keep pets in the same way that they do. Instead, she just lets a bunch of cats (and kittens) live in the cobhouse, but she's not attached to them or anything.
Quote #8
By now I knew that not everybody around here called "Uncle" or "Aunt" was necessarily your uncle or aunt. (7.102)
Even the way that you refer to people is different when the kids go to stay with their grandmother. They call everyone "uncle" and "aunt" regardless of whether they're blood relatives because things are a bit more close-knit around here.
Quote #9
And we steamed on, riding the Wabash Blue Bird, bound for Chicago across the patchwork fields. (7.210)
After their last week spent with Grandma Dowdel, the kids watch out the window as they ride the train back home. They commit the landscape to memory…and all the good times they shared with Grandma.