CHAPTER IV. THE WAYS OF THE CHANGELINGS
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
There is this trouble about special providences—namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
This history must henceforth accommodate itself to the change which Roxana has consummated, and call the real heir “Chambers” and the usurping little slave “Thomas à Becket”—shortening this latter name to “Tom,” for daily use, as the people about him did.
“ Tom” was a bad baby, from the very
