One orator rose, and suggested that as H.S.had not yet eat his own dinner, he ought to give it to J.J.This motion, for the children always welcome any reasonable substitute for corporal punishment, was carried by acclamation.

When one o'clock came, and the dinner was handed over, "_coram publico_," to J.J., H.S.was observed by him to be in tears, and lingering near his _own_ dinner.

They were by this time nearly done, but the teacher was watching the result.

The tears were too much for J.J., who went to H.S., threw his arms round his neck, told him not to cry, but to sit down and take half.

This invitation was of course accepted by H.S., who manifested a great inferiority of character to the other, and furnished an example of the blindness of the unjust to the justice of retribution, which they always feel to mere revenge and cruelty.