With such a one it is generally soon all over.

Just as the April shower, sharp enough while it lasts, gives place in time to the sun, so Will Hothead generally gets all right as soon as he has let the steam off; and when he shakes hands and makes it up, you are pretty sure he thinks none the worse of you, and bears no malice.
Don't imagine I'm trying to justify exhibitions of temper.

Far from it.
I say every boy who can't control his temper has yet to learn one of the greatest lessons of life.

What I want to show is that even passion, bad as it is, is not so bad as sulkiness.
For just consider what a miserable sort of boy this Tom Sulks, that we all of us know, is.

Why, almost before he could speak he had learned to pout.