Forgive me, but I was pleased to find that you never asked to see the book; for I really couldn't bring myself to flog a boy merely for the sake of writing up an entry.' In short, that man was a born schoolmaster, and almost dispensed with punishments, even the slightest." "He ruled the boys by kindness, I suppose ?" "He wasn't quite such a fool." "Then what was his secret ?" "Bad temper.

They held him in a holy terror; and it's all the queerer because he wasn't even just." Brother Bonaday shook his head.
"I don't understand," he said; "but if you believe so little in punishment, why are we proposing to punish Corona ?" "Obviously, my dear fellow, because we can find no better way.
The child must not be suffered to grow up into a termagant--you will admit that, I hope?
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Very well, then: feeble guardians that we are, we must do our best." He knocked at the bedroom door and, after a moment, entered.
Corona sat on the edge of her bed, dry-eyed, hugging Timothy to her breast.
"Corona!" "Yes, Uncle Copas ?" "You have been extremely naughty, and probably know that you have to be punished." "I dare say it's the best you can do," said Corona, after weighing this address or seeming to do so.