Children _like_ almost all kinds of noises very much, especially, if they make the noises themselves; but grown people dislike them even more, I think, than children like them.

If there were a number of boys in the house, and I should tell them that they might run back and forth through the rooms, and rattle and slam all the doors as they went as loud as they could, they would like it very much.

They would think it excellent fun." "Yes," says Georgie, "indeed, they would.

I wish you would let us do it some day." "But grown people," continues his mother, "would not like such an amusement at all.

On the contrary, such a racket would be excessively disagreeable to them, whether they made it themselves or whether somebody else made it.