The episode starts out with a telegram to Caroline informing her that her parents are coming to town for a visit. Sadly, when Charles goes to the train station, he finds out that Caroline's mother passed away on the train. Of course, Caroline is devastated. But Charles helped her through it. Her father wasn't so fortunate, at first. He was depressed and had very little will to live. But, Albert changed that by convincing him to share some of his memories of happier times. In no time, he broke out of the depression. He joined the rest of the family for dinner. Albert mentions how Caroline's father shared some very amusing memories from the past. They convinced him to write them down and maybe write a book. He agreed enthusiastically. Upon finishing it, Caroline and Charles read it and were both so impressed by it, Charles suggested they see if they could get a publisher interested in publishing it. He sent off a copy of it to a publisher who later sent a reply showing interested in it and said they would be sending a contract that needed to be signed, along with more information. Overjoyed by this, Charles showed the letter to Caroline's father, who also became overjoyed. A short time later, they received the promised information from the publisher. Along with the contracts, there was a letter requesting around $32 to publish the book. The place ended up being a scam publish company that took advantage of new and desperate authors. Anyway, Charles didnt have the heart to tell Caroline's father about this. He ended up going to mancato with Laura and Albert to sell Charles' new plow, to try and scrape up the money to Publish the book. Coming up short, Laura and Albert decided to panhandle for some money. They ended up having enough with $0.50 to spare. They received the books and with the help of Albert's help again, Mrs Olsen agreed to take all the books to sell in the mercantile and give Charles the money in advance. Albert told Harriet that there was some juicy info on Caroline. Harriet just had to read it. Anyway, Caroline's father returned to the big woods a happy man and passed away 2 years later. Below his name, his tombstone read "Author".
Now for the odd part... Mary is pregnant in this episode and had a baby boy towards the end of the episode. It was like it was an after thought when they wrote the script. They had time to spare and shoehorned this in.
Now for the odd part... Mary is pregnant in this episode and had a baby boy towards the end of the episode. It was like it was an after thought when they wrote the script. They had time to spare and shoehorned this in.