The morning of his eighteen birthday Westinghouse Patent Pend. Ainstruther hears his Ma say, "Wes, break a leg." He realizes it is carnie talk telling him to leave the desolate homestead to go out in the world to make his fortune and send it back, that the other eight kid's ration of corn meal mush and goat's milk not be permanently interrupted. Unschooled he is well read from his Uncle Abernathy, an English Remittance Man's, library. He is then a...