Notes from the story Split Cherry Tree

Farm: On the farm there is nineteen heads of cattle, four mules, twenty five hogs, and it is six miles from the school.

Dave: 10 siblings, the only one who has gone to high school, and he is the narrator.

Professer Herbert: He has glasses, and his hair is as gray as the suit he wears.

PA: Old fashioned, believes if you spare the rod you spoil the child, and he is very quick tempered. After  Pa found out that Dave had to stay after school he decides he is going to 'talk' to Professor Herbert but takes a gun with him. The next day he goes to school in his overalls, big boots, a blue shirt,  a sheep skin coat, and a black slouched hat. He is sixty-five years old and still whips his children until they are twenty-one. He doesn't believe in germs. He wont whip cattle and mules because they cant defend them selves but man can.

School: It has a janitor