There she lay for a full half hour.

When her mother would have raised her to her feet she uttered shriek after shriek, until her fellow-travelers' ears rang.

After this triumph of young America over the rule and command of tyrannizing mamma, the innocent babe was allowed to remain prostrate in her chosen resting-place, while brakemen, conductor and passengers stepped gingerly over the recumbent form.

She varied the monotony of the situation by occasional wrathful kicks in the direction of her mother or at some would-be passer-by.
"It is best to let sleeping dogs lie," sighed the mother of this prodigy to her sister.

"When she gets one of these attacks (and she has them quite often) I just leave her alone until she becomes ashamed of it.