blame on me, and I was made to understand that as 

 long as I was responsible for the breaking up of their 

 home it was up to me to search for the children. 



Of course, they had gotten under our porch and 

 neighboring porches, down cellar and in every other 

 difficult place, where I bumped my head and nearly 

 skinned my back reaching them, only to have th& 

 wretched little things flutter farther away. After an 

 hour's ceaseless pursuit I eventually landed the entire 

 six babies, placed them unhurt on the boughs of a 

 sumach, and delivered myself of an oration to the 

 parents, in which I forthwith washed my hands of the 

 entire business. 



194. 



