It lays in de way Sollermun was raised.

You take a man dat's got on'y one or two chillen; is dat man gwyne to be waseful o' chillen?
No, he ain't; he can't 'ford it.

HE know how to value 'em.

But you take a man dat's got 'bout five million chillen runnin' roun' de house, en it's diffunt.

HE as soon chop a chile in two as a cat.