Caleb Scott
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Up and Down Ladders
Jacob often thought that all painters were a little odd just like his uncle Moses was. The typical sort of lonely fellow who never married yet worked very hard and never seemed to spend a dime from it. He was from a time and place where maybe it was easier to settle down alone than to do anything else. Moses was quiet and tall, he had a grave face and when seen about the town Jacob’s friends would say he creeped them out. As far as Jacob saw it, his uncle was generous and warm, come Christmas and birthdays a card would always come to him or his siblings with at least a ten pound note taped to the top. Beyond these polite gestures and the odd question about school, Moses was unknowable to his nephews and nieces, in fact many people would have said something similar. He had a few friends from playing bowls but they never seemed particularly close, he was well liked by the wider family but rarely invited for dinner. He lived with Jacob’s grandma, his mother, up until she died and he solely inherited the family home, causing small but not insignificant tension throughout the wider family. This hardly mattered to the grandchildren or Moses’ brothers and sisters, it would always be grandma’s house to them.
By Caleb Scott3 years ago in Families