In either case, the other mother would intervene, and then the two bantlings would retire into the background and leave their mothers to take up the duel while they resumed their interrupted game.
Of such sort was the squabble betwixt Mrs.Isaacs and Mrs.Jacobs.

Mrs.
Isaacs pointed out with superfluous vehemence that her poor lamb had been mangled beyond recognition.

Mrs.Jacobs, _per contra_, asseverated with superfluous gesture that it was _her_ poor lamb who had received irreparable injury.

These statements were not in mutual contradiction, but Mrs.Isaacs and Mrs.Jacobs were, and so the point at issue was gradually absorbed in more personal recriminations.
"By my life, and by my Fanny's life, I'll leave my seal on the first child of yours that comes across my way! There!" Thus Mrs.Isaacs.
"Lay a linger on a hair of a child of mine, and, by my husband's life, I'll summons you; I'll have the law on you." Thus Mrs.Jacobs; to the gratification of the resident populace.
Mrs.Isaacs and Mrs.Jacobs rarely quarrelled with each other, uniting rather in opposition to the rest of the Square.

They were English, quite English, their grandfather having been born in Dresden; and they gave themselves airs in consequence, and called their _kinder_ "children," which annoyed those neighbors who found a larger admixture of Yiddish necessary for conversation.