Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 227
ces after-ward. Tom never did the same sort of foolish things as Maggie,having a wonderful instinctive discernment beforehand of whatwould turn to his advantage or disadvantage; and so it happenedthat, though he was much more wilful and inflexible than Maggie,his mother hardly ever called him… … 224 THE TREASURE CHEST was convinced, not that the whipping of gates by all boys wasa justifiable act, but that he, Tom TuUiver, was justifiable inwhipping that particular gate, whereas Maggie was always beingsorry and wishing she had done something different. As she stood crying before the glass,…
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