[Sidenote: Over Toys]
(1) _Quarreling on the school grounds._ Walter Hendricks and Teddy
Brownlow were children of well-to-do parents who supplied the boys
liberally with helps. Being surfeited with apparatus of all sorts,
nothing pleased them for long, hence they were constantly desiring each
other’s pencils, and, when no other way of getting them presented
itself, would snatch them from each other. This led to constant
bickerings between the two boys. Finally the teacher’s patience in
settling disputes became exhausted and she said, “Boys, I am going to
slap your hands the next time they do such naughty things!” After a few
experiences of this sort with the teacher, Walter and Teddy decided it
was the part of wisdom to avoid further quarreling in her presence, but
on the playgrounds no abatement of the nuisance was observable.