The cat gets "sick" and the girls insist at stopping at a hospital. Jansci and Kate make the wagon trek to bring back their grandparents, because the front is now too close for them to be safe. Marton is missing and they have not heard from him. I only hope the war ends before this poison has spread too far." p 163. the mad whirlwind that sucks in men.and spits out crippled wrecks." Crippled in body and soul, Jansci thought then, with an understanding far beyond his years. Into Jancsi's mind flashed the words Father had said: "The stampede. They didn't speak what was there to say? Something, somebody had poisoned Peter's soul against those who had been good to him all his life. "Mother took Jancsi's arm then and they left the room.
But Peter is angry and expresses his rage at Jews, even though it is Uncle Moses, the Jewish shopkeeper, who has helped hide him. After seeing the baby he returns to his regiment. He is hidden under the six Russians, who sympathize. He has panicked about his wife and new baby. They are also excellent workers and homesick.Īs the prisoners are taken home in the wagon, they also take Peter, a deserter from the Hungarian army. "Comrade, eh? Friend?" says one of the prisoners.
Jansi and his cousin Kate take the chains off them and the prisoners quickly become part of the family. They apply and take 6 Russian prisoners, homesick farmers, who don't speak Hungarian. One of the instructions is "to make out an application for Russian prisoners if necessary." They are getting behind on the work and then find a diary from Marton, which gives suggestions and instructions for the year round work on the farm. The farm suffers because so many men are called up. The good master is Marton Nagy, and he is called up as a Corporal, leaving the farm to be cared for by his wife, son, niece and workers. The Singing Tree is the sequel to The Good Master, and describes the survival of a Hungarian family and farm during World War I. The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy, 1939, is a children’s book that illustrated PTSD for me long before I went to medical school.
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