SOMETHING WRONG.
What's the matter here? There is something wrong. It is clear that the little boy in the picture is not receiving kind treatment at the hands of his sister. But what is she doing to him? Not pulling his ear, we hope. Something is wrong; what can it be? We must try and make it out. There is a whip and a top on the floor, and also a chair thrown down, to which a string is tied.
The little boy, we suppose, was whipping his top, while his sister was playing with the chair.
"Take care, now, Johnny," says the sister, as the lash of her brother's whip comes every little while close to her face; "take care, or you will cut me in the eyes."
But Johnny either doesn't hear, or doesn't heed, and keeps on whipping his top.
"There, now!" says Anna, "you came as near as could be to striking me. I wish you would go out into the passage or down into the dining-room with your top."
"John," says mamma, looking up from her work, "you must be careful and not cut your sister with that whip."
"No, ma'am," replies Johnny, and keeps on with his sport as carelessly as ever.