text:  Mournful beings! I internally exclaimed as they proceeded from my sight whatever sinful sorrow thus serves to link together your discordant existences it must indeed be of a damning nature if such a career as yours does not go far to expiate it! That day on the re-assembling of the family I did not fail to allude to the subject of the milkman and to express my surprise at his tenacity to life as well as at the fixedness of purpose that enabled him to pursue his occupation through a long series of years under such remarkable circumstances