"You cannot find any birds?"
"Not one! It is the worst place I ever was in," and she began to sob as if her heart would break.
"You ought to have done better," said Bow-Wow.
"It is your work to find food. I told you so."
"And it is your part to take care of us on the way, and you have done that well, have you not?" said Mew-Mew.
"You have not much to talk about, anyhow," said Bow-Wow.
"If I have not, I might have had, for all your good lookout," said the cat.
Thus they grew very cross.
I dare say they might even have come to blows, if it had not been that Bow-Wow was not able to stand.
After a while they made up their cross words.