At last she stopped.
"'Anything more to say, ma'am ?' he asked politely.
"Mrs.Murdoch snorted a negative.
"'Then all _I_ hev to say,' he went on, 'is that to _my_ mind _mothers_ has _rights_.

That there b'ar's a mother, an' she's got feelin's, like you, an' she's come after her young un, like you--an' I wasn't a-goin' to see her robbed of him.'".