23/29 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. |