Suppose you try a little _un_learning?
Great lawyers and great men and great conquerors and good hunters don't kill their fathers, Lewis,--no, nor any other man, excepting always in fair fight." "I know--I know!" said Lewis.

"Of course he's my father.

But I never could stand for any one to get in my way!" "That's just what the rattlesnake says--and after a while nobody does get in his way.

But he must be a lonely creature." "Do you think," asked the boy oddly,--"do you think I am really like that,--like a rattlesnake ?" Adam gave his mellow laugh.

"No, I don't.