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Title: Extracts from the note-book of Mr. Percival Pug : illustrated by sketches from his portfolio
Year: 1837 (1830s)
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Subjects: Christian life Boys -- Conduct of life Swine
Publisher: Boston : Printed by Torrey & Blair, No. 31 Cornhill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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PEPPER. right. It will grieve us more to have offendedour kind Father, than it would to endure anypunishment. And these feelings will lead usto contend against sin. BlU, father, said one of the little girls, ant you going to tell us the story ? Yes, my dear. Its about a boy who veryfoolishly let his temper get loose, just as Peterlet tlie pig out of the pen ; and then he foundit quite as unmanageable. He was going oneday to school, when one of his comrades joinedhim, and immediately began to tell what anotherboy had said about him the day before. And what was it, fadier ? asked the litdegirl. Oh, its no matter what it was. It wassome foolish thing, I dare say, not worth quar-relling about. But this boy did not tliink so ;or rather he did not think at all, for angr)^ folksare not apt to diink. * So, when he saw the other lad sittinsr ona rock in the playground, he went right up,and taxed him with what he had said. Theother boy only laughed at him, and this madehim ten times more angry.
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PETER PEPPER. 97 And what was his name, Pa ? Why, his companions had nicknamed himPepper, because of his peppery disposition;and the boy he was affionted with was calledRobert. And the one who made the troublewas a cunning, mischievous boy, whom, forthat reason, his schoolfellows called Simon Sly-boots. You know whom I mean by SimonSlyboots, dont you, Peter ? I can guess, sir, said Peter, coloring,for he thought he could guess all the three. Now, if )\Iaster Pepper had gone andasked Robert about what he said, in a propermanner, he would have received an explanationwhich would have satisfied him ; for he wouldhave seen there was no harm, except in thecolorinj; Simon Slyboots had given it. But thishe did not do; but he grew more and moreangry; and at last he concluded he must havea fight to settle the matter. Now, this wasvery foolish, not only because persons cannever get any good themselves by quarrellingand fighting, but also because Robert was twoyears older than the other, and a gr

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