When we were asked we explained about having thought the Baby was the
prey of gypsies, and the distracted horseman stood hugging the Baby, and
actually thanked us.
But when he had gone we had a brief lecture on minding our own business.
But Dora still thinks she was right. As for Oswald and most of the
others, they agreed that they would rather mind their own business all
their lives than mind a baby for a single hour.
If you have never had to do with a baby in the frenzied throes of
sleepiness you can have no idea what its screams are like.
If you have been through such a scene you will understand how we
managed to bear up under having no baby to adopt.
Oswald insisted on having the whole thing written in the Golden Deed
book. Of course his share could not be put in without telling about
Dora's generous adopting of the forlorn infant outcast, and Oswald could
not and cannot forget that he was the one who did get that baby to
sleep.
What a time Mr. and Mrs. Distracted Horseman must have of it,
though--especially now they've sacked the nursemaid.
If Oswald is ever married--I suppose he must be some day--he will have
ten nurses to each baby. Eight is not enough. We know that because we
tried, and the whole eight of us were not enough for the needs of that
deserted infant, who was not so extra high-born after all.