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Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This kind ofretaliation（报复，反击）should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstances. If you have nothing but a rag doll stuffed with saw-dust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly china one, you should treat her with a show of kindness, nevertheless. And you ought not to attempt to make aforcible（强制的）swap with her unless your conscience would justify you in it, and you know you are able to do it. You ought never to take your little brother's "chawing-gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on agrindstone（磨石）. In the artless simplicity natural to his time of life, he will regard it as a perfectly fair transaction. In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster. If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud -- never on any account throw mud at him, because it will soil his clothes. It is better to scald him a little; for then you attain two desirable results -- you secure his immediate attention to the lesson you are inculcating, and, at the same time, your hot water will have a tendency to removeimpurities（杂质）from his person -- and possibly the skin also, in spots. | 
