Of course we see, with our birds, that the father
is as useful as the mother, almost. But among insects we find him
of less importance, sometimes very little. Is it not so with you?"
"Oh, yes, birds and bugs," Terry said, "but not among animals--
have you NO animals?"
"We have cats," she said. "The father is not very useful."
"Have you no cattle--sheep--horses?" I drew some rough
outlines of these beasts and showed them to her.
"We had, in the very old days, these," said Somel, and
sketched with swift sure touches a sort of sheep or llama," and
these"--dogs, of two or three kinds, "that that"--pointing to my
absurd but recognizable horse.
"What became of them?" asked Jeff.
"We do not want them anymore. They took up too much room--we need
all our land to feed our people. It is such a little country, you know."
"Whatever do you do without milk?" Terry demanded incredulously.
"MILK? We have milk in abundance--our own.
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