As for Oswald and most of the others, they agreed that they would rather mind their own business all their lives than mind a baby for a single hour.
If you have never had to do with a baby in the frenzied throes of sleepiness you can have no idea what its screams are like.
If you have been through such a scene you will understand how we managed to bear up under having no baby to adopt.

Oswald insisted on having the whole thing written in the Golden Deed book.

Of course his share could not be put in without telling about Dora's generous adopting of the forlorn infant outcast, and Oswald could not and cannot forget that he was the one who did get that baby to sleep.
What a time Mr and Mrs Distracted Horseman must have of it, though--especially now they've sacked the nursemaid.
If Oswald is ever married--I suppose he must be some day--he will have ten nurses to each baby.

Eight is not enough.

We know that because we tried, and the whole eight of us were not enough for the needs of that deserted infant who was not so extra high-born after all..