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Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

CHAPTER X
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I'll wait here till you come back.

I don't suppose you want any help from me.

If you do, I'll come." "No," aid William, "I can do it alone." So William ran on with great alacrity to help the boys clear the string, and then came back with a beaming face to his aunt, and they walked on.
William's aunt made no further allusion to the affair until the end of the walk, and then, on entering the gate, she said, "We have had a very pleasant walk, and you have taken very good care of me.

And I am glad we helped those boys out of their trouble with the kite." "So am I," said William.
_Analysis of the Incident_.
Now it is possible that some one may say that William was wrong in his harsh treatment of the boys, or at least in his want of consideration for their perplexity; and that his aunt, by her mode of treating the case, covered up the wrong, when it ought to have been brought distinctly to view and openly amended.

But when we come to analyze the case, we shall find that it is not at all certain that there was any thing wrong on William's part in the transaction, so far as the state of his heart, in a moral point of view, is concerned.


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