"At any rate, when you, an older brother, get into disputes with your sister, it is because you have not sense enough to manage so as to avoid them.

If you were a little older and wiser you would have sense enough." "Well, mother, what shall the punishment be ?" said George.
"Would you really like to have a punishment, so as to cure yourself of the fault ?" asked his mother.
George said that he _would_ like one.
"Then," said his mother, "I propose that every time you get into a dispute with Amelia, you turn your jacket wrong side out, and wear it so a little while as a symbol of folly." George laughed heartily at this idea, and said he should like such a punishment as that very much.

It would only be fun, he said.

His mother explained to him that it would be fun, perhaps, two or three times, but after that it would only be a trouble; but still, if they decided upon that as a punishment, he must submit to it in every case.

Every time he found himself getting into any dispute or difficulty with his sister, he must stop at once and turn his jacket inside out; and if he did not himself think to do this, she herself, if she was within hearing, would simply say, "Jacket!" and then he must do it.
"No matter which of us is most to blame ?" asked George.
"You will always be the one that is most to blame," replied his mother, "or, at least, almost always.