"John, I shall punish you if I hear those words again."
"I don't mind. Nurse says you have no business to punish me! She
did not put me to bed; and I had such fun! Oh, such fun!" and the
boy looked up with a grin that set all the others laughing.
Christabel resolutely kept silence, and hoped her looks did not show
her annoyance, as the boy went on, "I got lots of goodies, for Nurse
said she had no notion of no stranger punishing her children. Oh!
Oh! Oh!" For Samuel had hold of his ear, and was tweaking it
sharply.
"There! Go and tell Nurse, if you like, baby!"
"Sam, indeed I can't have my battles fought in that way!" cried the
governess, much distressed, as Johnnie roared, perhaps that old Nurse
might hear, and, to all attempts to find out whether he were hurt,
offered only heels and fists, till Susan came back and hugged him
into quiet.
"Now Johnnie has cried before breakfast on a Monday morning," said
Annie, "all the rest of the week will go wrong with him."
"Indeed," said Miss Fosbrook, "I hope no such thing.--Suppose we try
and show Annie she is wrong, Johnnie!"
But Johnnie was sulky, and even Susan looked as if she thought this a
new and dangerous notion.
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