Look at him playing at cricket.

He steps across the wickets to hit at a ball, but, instead, stops it with his foot.

"How's that, umpire ?" cries the bowler.

"Out, leg before," is the answer.
Tom still keeps his place.
"Out, do you hear, leg before ?" "It wasn't!" growls Tom.
"The umpire gives it out," is the unanswerable reply.
Thereupon Tom's face clouds over, his eyebrows gather, and his lips shape themselves into a pout, as he drops his bat and walks from the wicket without a word.

No one takes any notice of him, for the event is too common, alas, to occasion surprise.