“Do you think he did right, Wallace?” asked Stuyvesant.
“What do you think, Phonny?” asked Wallace.
“Why, I don’t know,” said Phonny.
“Do you think, on the whole, that his mother was most pleased or most pained by it?” asked Wallace.
“Most pleased,” said Phonny. “She was not much frightened, and that only for a moment, and she laughed about it a great deal.”
“Were you there at the time?” asked Wallace.
“Yes,” said Phonny.
“What was the boy’s name?” said Wallace.
“Arthur,” said Phonny.
“Another day,” continued Phonny, “Arthur was taking a walk with Fanny, and he persuaded her to go across a plank over a brook, and when she was over, he pulled the plank away, so that she could not get back again. He danced about on the bank on the other side, and called Fanny a savage living in the woods.”