366 THE HOME OF A NATURALIST. 



And so Ingath Halcro returned to Orgert, and her 

 children will inherit it. But she speaks little of " blue 

 blood " to them, and even reproves her husband when 

 he ventures to tell his boys that they come of gentle 

 birth, on one side at least 



" Let their boast rather be," says Ingath, the mother, 

 " that they are the sons of a self-made man, whose 

 character is as stainless as that of * Arthur's Stainless 

 Kniiiht.'" 



