
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.

as Kate Comstock

as Elnora Comstock

as Pete Reed

as Miss Nelson

as Roger Henley

as Helen Brownlee

as Wesley Sinton

as Margaret Sinton

as Hodges

as Chester Hopple

as Miss Blodgett

as Jessie Reed

as Carrie

as Bob Stewart

as Schoolgirl

as Bird Woman (uncredited)