But the unlucky suggestion met with fierce and unanimous opposition.

It was evident that no plan which entailed parting from their new acquisition would for a moment be entertained.
"Besides," said Tom Ryder, "them fellows at Red Dog would swap it, and ring in somebody else on us." A disbelief in the honesty of other camps prevailed at Roaring Camp, as in other places.
The introduction of a female nurse in the camp also met with objection.
It was argued that no decent woman could be prevailed to accept Roaring Camp as her home, and the speaker urged that "they didn't want any more of the other kind." This unkind allusion to the defunct mother, harsh as it may seem, was the first spasm of propriety,--the first symptom of the camp's regeneration.

Stumpy advanced nothing.

Perhaps he felt a certain delicacy in interfering with the selection of a possible successor in office.

But when questioned, he averred stoutly that he and "Jinny"-- the mammal before alluded to--could manage to rear the child.