Not only did such a miserable cry shock Phil and his daughter, but it even attracted the neighbors.

Vireo's mother cried incomparably miserably as she sat on the ground and slapped her legs. "Has it been easy for me to bring you up since you were a baby? I did not even have any breast milk, but I still let you chew on it, so much so that I was trembling in pain from being bitten by you. You're one without a conscience.

"I had raised you with such difficulty since you were a baby. When you had