But from the balcony, where she was sitting, Minnie’s mamma had seen them fall into the ditch, and was hastening to them. The little hunters were so absorbed that they did not see her coming. But dear mamma understands it all, and she is very much pleased with her little children. When they are older she will explain to them that though it is not wrong for learned men to make painful experiments, in order to gain useful knowledge, no one else should wantonly destroy even the least of God’s creatures.

As for the Donkey, I don’t know what has become of him. I think he has given up trying to understand anything about the matter, and gone home to his stable.