"I brought down the male from the rock up there with an arrow, and I found the mother in a hollow with her young ones.

I had a harder job with her; my knife is so bad, and the copper blade bent with the blow; I had to strangle the gaudy devil with my hands, and she tore my shoulder and bit my arm.

Look! there are the scars.

But thank God, my wounds heal quicker than my father's.

Paulus says, I am like an earth-worm; when it is cut in two the two halves say good-bye to each other, and crawl off sound and gay, one way, and the other another way.