If one of you says something that the other thinks is not true, let it pass without contradiction; it is foolish to dispute about it.

And so if one has any thing that the other wants, it is generally much better to wait for it than to quarrel.

It is hateful to quarrel.

Besides, it spoils your beauty.

When children are quarrelling they look like little furies." The teacher may go on in this way, and give a long moral lecture to the dolls in a tone of mock gravity, and the children will listen to it with the most profound attention; and it will have a far greater influence upon them than the same admonitions addressed directly to _them_.
So effectually, in fact, will this element of play in the transaction open their hearts to the reception of good counsel, that even direct admonitions to _them_ will be admitted with it, if the same guise is maintained; for the teacher may add, in conclusion, addressing now the children themselves with the same mock solemnity: "That is a very bad fault of your children--very bad, indeed.