I really don't need to retell the story of Grandpa Calkins, about how after his mother died, his father placed he and his two younger brothers in an orphanage in Pasadena, while he went and got his life back together, because perhaps he felt that he could not care for them properly without their mother, where grandpa spent a few years, I am not sure how many, until he was old enough to work. But you already knew that.