"
"Sam!" cried the tormented David, and "Sam!" cried the governess,
really afraid the little boy would be hurt; but Sam only stood
laughing with his back to the shutter, and Christabel herself hurried
to the rescue, to pick Henry off his victim, holding an arm tight,
while the child got up, and ran away to get his hair re-brushed for
tea.
"Now, Hal, you might have hurt him," argued the governess.
"Very good thing for him too," said the brothers with one voice.
She was very much shocked; but when she thought it over she perceived
that though Hal might be to blame, yet in the long run even this
rough discipline might be more useful to her dear little David than
being allowed to take upon him with his elder brothers, and grow
conceited and interfering.
Miss Fosbrook was not surprised when, next morning, a frightful
bellowing was heard instead of Johnnie being seen, and she learnt
that Master John was in the hands of Nurse Freeman, who was
administering to him a dose in consequence of his having been greatly
indisposed all night. It must be confessed that Christabel was not
very sorry to hear it, nor that Nurse would keep him to herself all
day; for bad company as Johnnie had been on the week-days, he had
been worse on the Sunday.
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