A lot of girls and boys never think it half as much a bother to bother
about some people outside as they do to bother about people in their own
homes. Some boys, and girls too, can be as sweet as an all-day sucker
when some other lady asks them to go a message, and as sour as a dose of
vinegar when their own mother wants something done!
"Oh, yes, dear Mrs. Smith, it will be no trouble at all to take that
letter to the post. I'll gladly go!"
"Oh, confound it, Mother! I can't do that! I wanted to go down to the
pond to skate!"