It troubled them to find that Child sometimes sleeping curled up with its toe in its mouth, and sometimes flat on its stomach with its head underneath the pillow.

But its health and temper were decidedly improved.
The Parent can do no right.
There is nothing the parent can do right.

You would think that now and then he might, if only by mere accident, blunder into sense.

But, no, there seems to be a law against it.

He brings home woolly rabbits and indiarubber elephants, and expects the Child to be contented "forsooth" with suchlike aids to its education.