Chapter XXIII

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.

Strasburgh, printed G. Silbermann.

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Transcriber Notes

Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected.
The Illustrator's last name of FRÖLICH has been left as in the
original, similar spelling is found in other printed material from
the same time period. The original spelling of the name in Danish
appears to be FRØLICH.
Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS.
Descriptions have been added to the illustrations without captions that
accompany each short chapter.