[Sidenote: Habit]
Henry Sanderson was addicted to quarreling and also to fighting, both on
the school grounds and on his way home. Every morning some one or more
of the first grade children came to the teacher, Miss Burnham, with a
tale of woe regarding unkind words, or blows, or other annoyances for
which Henry had been responsible on the way home the night before.
Finally his teacher said, “Henry, every time I hear of your being
quarrelsome with the children, I’m going to have you stay in at recess
the next day.” For a day or two this plan worked and the teacher
congratulated herself that Henry’s fault was cured. The cure was of
short duration, however, and from this time on most of Henry’s recesses
were spent in the schoolhouse, thereby depriving the boy of rest and
recreation that he very much needed.