"Most people are only too glad to escape punishment." "Maybe I'm different from most folks," said Lulu, "but I always want to beat myself when I've been so hateful, and so if papa punishes me I always feel a good deal happier after it's over.
"But I must finish my story.

Papa asked, 'Lulu, did you hear me bid you come to me ?' and I answered, 'Yes, sir'; then muttered, 'but I'll not come a step till I get ready.'" Evelyn seemed lost in astonishment.

"Oh Lu! did you really say that?
could you venture to speak so to your father--a man whom everybody respects so highly, and who is so dear and kind to you ?" "I did," acknowledged Lulu, her head hanging still lower and her cheek flushing more hotly.

"You see when I lived with Aunt Beulah I got into the way of being very saucy to her, and I suppose that's how I came to speak so to papa.

Oh don't you think I ought to be dreadfully ashamed, and that papa should have punished me very severely ?" "I suppose he is the best judge of that," Eva answered, doubtfully.