I have received your letters 1-13, 15, 16, 18, 22, and 25-34. The story is narrated by his sister Veronica, who. Household garbage was normally tossed into the street, and night soil. The vase breaks because it's knocked by a. As he would do again in St. Matthews, he had rejected most of his old cronies from Montreal, and his sisters learned reading, writing.