She had already eaten two apples.

Bridget heard the falsehood, but she did not consider it her duty to betray the child, so she said nothing.

The mother, however, afterwards, in the course of the day, accidentally ascertained the truth.
Now, as we have said, there are three grades in the kind and character of the measures which may be considered violent that a mother may resort to in a case like this.
_Bodily Punishment_.
1.

First, there is the infliction of bodily pain.

The child may be whipped, or tied to the bed-post, and kept in a constrained and uncomfortable position for a long time, or shut up in solitude and darkness, or punished by the infliction of bodily suffering in other ways.
And there is no doubt that there is a tendency in such treatment to correct or cure the fault.