"Want to introduce a cow?" I asked. "You believe in utilitarianism in education I fancy."
"It's the pigeons and rabbits," he went on; "I was wondering if you would object to my getting rid of one or two."
"What's wrong?"
"It's the sex matter," he said hurriedly. "I don't like the thing; I don't so much mind the infants asking awkward questions, but why the deuce should they keep them till I am speaking to the infant mistress?"
"Refer them to the lady," I said with a chuckle.
He looked troubled.
"I must get rid of one sex," he said.
"Macdonald," I said severely, "I don't know that you can do that without the permission of the children. The rabbits and doos are their's; they bought them with their own money."
"That's no great difficulty," he said lightly.