Kate said nothing about the arrangement, because she supposed it had been made to give her more room, and that George might sleep in peace, while she wrestled with two tiny babies.
There was no doubt about the wrestling.

The babies seemed of nervous temperament, sleeping in short naps and lightly.

Kate was on her feet from the time she reached her new home, working when she should not have worked; so that the result developed cross babies, each attacked with the colic, which raged every night from six o'clock until twelve and after, both frequently shrieking at the same time.

George did his share by going to town for a bottle of soothing syrup, which Kate promptly threw in the creek.

Once he took Adam and began walking the floor with him, extending his activities as far as the kitchen.