"It may look beautiful now on a Christmas card or in a religious picture, but there is not really anything lovely in hunting desperately fer lodgings when your wife is pregnant and near her time. There is nothing romantic in having your first baby in a drafty cave because no one in the inn next door will give up his bed for you, and it isn't really much fun to put your baby to sleep in the cattle's feeding trough because there is nowhere else except the dirty floor.