This was the detail the mother of the subject failed to pass on to the next generation.

"I am always afraid to sleep now, for fear he should call and his mother fail to hear him."

Because, I said, the mother had failed to protect her daughter.

"I told him no real mother could fail to go when her child was alone and ill in a far away place."

The sister who raised her when her mother failed to.

If the mother failed to pay the fine within a month of birth, she was endentured herself for five years.

His mother literally went begging for the money but failed to raise enough, and in December the boy died.

How could any mother fail in such a way?

It also said his mother failed to control him.

Her father has died after a fall from a horse and the mother tries but fails to keep the farm going.