The children's attitudes on "The Legacy"

[Sterling Holobyte]

This is a good episode and I like it. It is the episode where Charles goes to Minneapolis(?) to begin making and selling his desk design.

One thing that irks me though in this episode is that while he is away, a man comes looking to get hired on by Caroline to help on the farm, and right off, without even knowing the guy, Albert and Cassandra give him a sneering attitude, which I didn't think fit in with how they were brought up to treat people.
I mean, I know the guy quickly turns out to be a lazy bum, but there is no way for the kids to know that before he even walked in the door.

[PracTz]

Originally Posted by Sterling Holobyte

This is a good episode and I like it. It is the episode where Charles goes to Minneapolis(?) to begin making and selling his desk design.

One thing that irks me though in this episode is that while he is away, a man comes looking to get hired on by Caroline to help on the farm, and right off, without even knowing the guy, Albert and Cassandra give him a sneering attitude, which I didn't think fit in with how they were brought up to treat people.
I mean, I know the guy quickly turns out to be a lazy bum, but there is no way for the kids to know that before he even walked in the door.

Well, Albert was a street urchin and before that lived in an orphanage before he got into the Ingalls house and we don't know what kind of parenting Cassandra had had before they died in the wagon accident.

[Sterling Holobyte]

Originally Posted by PracTz

Well, Albert was a street urchin and before that lived in an orphanage before he got into the Ingalls house and we don't know what kind of parenting Cassandra had had before they died in the wagon accident.

True enough about Cassandra since she hadn't been brought up by the Ingalls very long, though Albert had been there quite awhile at this point.

It had also crossed my mind that since Albert did grow up largely on the street and had some street sense, he may have had some inner-sense inkling that the guy they hired was bad news.