The Importance of Habit

The Bergson's had a log house, for instance, only because Mrs. Bergson would not live in a sod house. She missed the fish diet of her own country. Twice every summer, she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward to fish for a channel cat. Alexandra often said that if her mother were cast upon a desert island, she would thank God for her deliverance and make something to preserve.