Piggy."
"Oh! we don't have fines on Sundays," said Henry.
"Mamma says that on Sundays naughtiness is not such a trifle that we
can be fined for it," said Susan.
"It is not naughtiness we are ever fined for," added Elizabeth:
"THAT we are punished and talked to for: but the fines are only for
bad habits."
"Oh! I hope I sha'n't have any this week," sighed Susan.
"You may hope," said Sam. "You're sure of them for everything
possible except crying."
"Yes, Bessie gets all the crying fines," said Hal; "and I hope she'll
have lots, because she won't help the pig."
Bessie started up from her place and rushed out of the room; while
Miss Fosbrook indignantly exclaimed,
"Really, boys, I can't think how you can be so ill-natured!"
They looked up as though it were quite a new light to them; and Susan
exclaimed,
"Oh, Miss Fosbrook! they don't mean it: Sam and Hal never were ill-
natured in their lives."
"I don't know what you call ill-natured," said Miss Fosbrook, "unless
it is saying the very things most likely to vex another."
"I don't mean to vex anybody," said Henry, "only we always go on so,
and nobody is such a baby as to mind, except Bessie.
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