His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow，whereupon the young man said，“I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear.”She came close to him，and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child，whereon he replied，“Ah！If you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book，I should not have come to this，nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.”