I won't have you fight with your guest." Crayshaw was in very weak health, but full of mischief and fun.

For a few days he seemed happy enough, then he flagged, and on the fifth morning he laid half-a-crown beside John's plate at breakfast.
"What's this for ?" asked John.
"Because it is not fair that he should be fined, and not I." "Put it in the missionary box," said John, who knew very well that the boys had been constructing a dam together all the previous day.
"It was about their possessions that they quarrelled," said Gladys in giving an account of the matter afterwards.

"They made a plan that they would go into partnership, and conquer all the rest of the world; but when they looked at the great map up in Parliament, and Johnnie found how much the most he had got, he said Cray must annex Japan, or he would not join.

Cray said it was against his principles.

So they quarrelled, and fought once or twice; but perhaps it was just as well, for you know the rest of the world would rather not be conquered.