But have ye felt the love iv a father, thin ?" "I hardly know.

I don't think so." "Well, I have.

An' it's the rale thing, I'll tell ye.

If iver a man suckled a child, I did, or the next door to it.

A girl child at that, an' she's woman grown, now, an' if the thing is possible, I love her more than her own blood-father.