Cain spanked and put to bed without his supper for asking his father why he had not called the male Kangaroo a Kangarooster.
_September 5th_, 5567.

Cain sentenced to the wood-pile for four hours for enquiring of Adam why he called the Yak a Yak when everybody knew he looked more like a Yap.

Adam is getting very nervous under this persistent questioning.
_January 4th_, 5565.

Adam has just retired to the wood-shed with poor Abel on what he termed a "whaling-expedition," to explain why he had named the elephant of the sea a whale instead of a sealephant.

I judge from Abel's blubbering that his father is giving him an object lesson in the place where it is most likely to impress itself forcibly on his understanding, though I must say I think the child's idea a rather good one, and I often wish my dear husband would not be so sensitive on the subject of his possible mistakes.
_May 25th_, 5563.