When I had had my dinner, I was so impatient to join Peter Mason that I could not rest, and from very idleness began to tease wee Davie.

A great deal of that nasty teasing, so common among boys, comes of idleness.

Poor Davie began to cry at last, and I, getting more and more wicked, went on teasing him, until at length he burst into a howl of wrath and misery, whereupon the Kelpie, who had some tenderness for him, burst into the room, and boxed my ears soundly.

I was in a fury of rage and revenge, and had I been near anything I could have caught up, something serious would have been the result.

In spite of my resistance, she pushed me out of the room and locked the door.