...ld was five years old, and a regular attendant at Ma'am Kilbourne's school on West Street, to which she walked every day hand in hand with her chubby, rosy-faced, bare-footed, four-year-old brother, Henry Ward . With the ability to read ger minated the intense literary longing that was to be hers through life. In those days but few books were specially prepared for children, and at six years of age we ...