For your own sake, if for nothing more, I should think you would try to do better.

If I were in your place, I would try to keep on good terms with my brothers and sisters, if I quarrelled with everybody else." Oscar made no reply to this, and the subject was soon dropped.

His mother was too much accustomed to such complaints of his misconduct, to think very seriously of them; and he was himself so used to such mild rebukes as the foregoing, that they made little impression upon his mind.

The boys, who all slept in one chamber, soon retired for the night; but Oscar took no further notice of the occurrences of the evening, except to apply the nickname of "mammy's little tell-tale" to George--a title of contempt by which he often addressed his little brother.
I am afraid that the title of "tell-tale" was not wholly undeserved by George.

True, he often had just cause of complaint; but he was too ready to bring whining accusations against his brothers and sisters, for every trifling thing.