I like nice faces bestest--do you ?" "Shut up, or I'll clout your ear," snarled I, in a regular perspiration of disgust.
"What's clout ?" inquired he.

Then, feeling his ears, "My ears don't stick out like that man's over there, do they ?" "Do you hear?
shut up, you little fool!" "We've got a donkey at home, and his--" Here I could stand it no longer, and lugged him off, whether he liked it or no.

He was just as bad in the reading-room.

He wouldn't sit still unless I told him stories, and made a regular nuisance of himself to the other people.

Then (I suppose it was his big feed) he began to get crusty, and blubbered when I talked sharply to him, and presently set up a regular good old howl.
"Why don't you put the child to bed ?" said a lady; "he's no business up at this hour." Nice, wasn't it?
I had to sneak off with him upstairs, howling all the way.