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her daughter looks to be, is vastly proud of her num- 
erous descendants, though she sometimes has diffi- 
culty in remembering their full names, or even their 
numbers, and one of them, trying to count up her 
grandchildren, once said, "It seems like there are 
fifteen, but I will have to study jest how many." 
The children take care of themselves, and where 
there are so many a few more or less makes no differ- 
ence, hence orphans are received into an already 
overflowing home with a cordiality that might put 
to shame the exclusiveness practiced in some other, 
and richer, parts of the world. Also illegitimate 
children are cared for with an affection equal to that 
bestowed upon their better credentialed brothers and 
sisters. When a young girl presents her parents with 
an unaccountable grandchild, the neighbors politely 
refer to it as an accident. The number of those 
among the poorer people who have "met up with 
an accident" is not inconsiderable, which perhaps 
accounts for the fact that so little importance is 
attached to it. The girl generally marries later, 
when her first-born takes his or her place in the 
family circle on the same footing as the rest, though, 
of course, among the better class of people, morality 
is esteemed the same here as elsewhere. 
The children share the responsibility and work 
of the home from the start, and in the remoter and 
poorer districts are as wild as rabbits. Sometimes 
half-grown children are unable to pronounce their 
own names so as to be understood. As a result 
names have actually been changed, an instance of 
