If, when the clock strikes seven, you have not confessed, Saveria shall give you a whipping.

Am I right, brother Charles ?" "You are right, Canon," replied Papa Charles.

"If within five minutes by your watch Napoleon has not confessed, Saveria shall give him the whip." "The whip is for horses and dogs, but not for boys," Napoleon declared, upon whom this threat of the whip always had an extraordinary effect.

"I am not a beast." "The whip is for liars, Napoleon," returned Papa Charles; "for liars and children who disobey." "Then, you are cruel to lay it over me; you are cruel and unjust," declared the boy.

"For I am not a liar; I am not disobedient.