Hurrell, it should be said, inflicted severe discipline upon himself to curb his own refractory nature.

In applying the same to his little brother he showed that he did not understand the difference between Anthony's character and his own.

But lack of insight and want of sympathy were among Hurrell's acknowledged defects.
Conceiving that the child wanted spirit, Hurrell once took him up by the heels, and stirred with his head the mud at the bottom of a stream.

Another time he threw him into deep water out of a boat to make him manly.

But he was not satisfied by inspiring physical terror.