ng to vex us; but he hurts no one but himself
with his perverse temper.'

'Then,' said Clara, 'I do not like to dine while Charles goes without;
so I will try and persuade him to come and eat some pie.'

'Well, Miss Clara,' said nurse, 'you may go, if you please; but I would
leave the bad boy to himself.'

When Clara came to Charles, and asked him if he would come and eat his
dinner, he poked out his head, and made such an ugly face that she was
quite frightened at him, and ran away.

Nurse did not take the trouble of calling him to tea; and, though he was
very hungry, he was too sulky to come without being asked; so he lay
under the table, and cried aloud till bedtime. But when it grew dark, he
was afraid to stay by himself, for bad children are always fearful; so
he came upstairs and said in a cross, rude tone of voice: 'Nurse, give
me something to eat.'

Nurse said: 'Master Charles, if you had been good, you would have had
some chicken and some apple-pie for your dinner, and bread and butter
and cake for your tea; but as you were such a bad boy, and would not
come to your meals, I shall only give you a piece of dry bread and a cup
of milk, and you do not deserve even that.'

Then Charles made one of his very worst faces, and threw the bread on
the ground, and spilt the milk.

Nurse told him that there were many poor children in the world who would
be glad of the smallest morsel of what he so much despised, and that the
time would come when he might want the very worst bit of it; and she
bade him kneel down and say his prayers, and ask God to forgive him for
having been such a wicked boy all day.

But Charles did not mind what she said, and went crying to bed. Thus
ended the first day of Charles Grant's happiness.

He awoke very early the next morning, and told nurse to get him his
breakfast, for he was very hungry. But nurse said he must wait till
eight o'clock, which was the breakfast hour.

He now found it was of no use sulking, as no one seemed to care for his
tempers; so he looked about for something to eat, but found nothing but
the piece of bread he had thrown on the ground the night before; and he
was glad to eat that, and only wished there had been more of it.

As soon as breakfast was over, Clara brought her books, and began to
learn her lessons, and nurse asked Charles if he would do the same. But
Charles said, 'No, indeed! I do not mean to learn any lessons while
mother is away, for I mean to