"Do you think it would be a good plan," I inquired, "to have it a common amusement in the recess for the girls to hunt each other among the desks?"
"No, sir," they replied, simultaneously.
"Why not? There are some reasons. I do not know, however, whether you will have the ingenuity to think of them."
"We may start the desks from their places," said one.
"Yes," said I, "they are fastened down very slightly, so that I may easily alter their position."
"We might upset the inkstands," said another.
"Sometimes," added a third, "we run against the scholars who are sitting in their seats."
"It seems, then, you have ingenuity enough to discover the reasons. Why did not these reasons prevent your doing it?"
"We did not think of them before."
"True; that is the exact state of the case. Now, when persons are so eager to promote their own enjoyment as to forget the rights and the comforts of others, it is selfishness. Now is there any rule in this school against selfishness?"