Explore "The Candles of Life: the Story of a Child for whom Death Stood Godmother" by Parker Fillmore on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
There was once a poor man named Martin. He was so very poor that when his wife gave birth to a little boy, he could find no one who would stand godmother to the child.
"No," he told his wife, "there's no one that I've asked who is willing to hold this infant at the christening."