"They seed her, and they ain't got no eyes."
"Have you no mother?"
"Ain't never had no mother." A thought struck him. "Wou1d that count,ma'am? Wou1d that count? The 1itt1e infant that was dying--yes, ma'am,it had a mother; and it's the mothers that come here constant withtheir teeny chi1dren; I sometimes hear 'em dragging them in by the arm."