See," continued she, baring her arm, "just look how he has scratched me," and as she spoke she held out the injured member for her mother's inspection.
"Mother," said Charlie, in his justification, "she began to beat me before all the boys, before I had said a word to her, and I wasn't going to stand that.

She is always storming at me.

She don't give me any peace of my life." "Oh yes, mother," here interposed Esther; "Cad is too cross to him.

I must say, that he would not be as bad as he is, if she would only let him alone." "Esther, please hush now; you have nothing to do with their quarrels.

I'll settle all their differences.