"Why, the one's the same as the other, ain't it?"
"I beg your pardon."
"Well, what was the object of his going?"
"He went after a wife."
"Samson! Samson!" shouted William and Isabel and Ellen
Chauncey.
"No it wasn't Samson either."
"I can't think of anybody else that went after a wife," said
George. "That king what's his name? that married Esther?"
The children screamed. "He didn't go after a wife, George his wives were brought to him. Was it Jacob?"
"No, he didn't go after a wife, either," said Gilbert; "he married two of them, but he didn't go to his uncle's to find them. You had better go on with your questions. You have had eight already. If you don't look out, you won't catch me. Come!"
"Did he get the wife that he went after?" asked Ellen
Chauncey.