"He won't come, ma'am."
"Go and tell him that if he doesn't come up to me instantly, I will put on his night-clothes and shut him up in the closet."
The threat of the closet was generally uttered ten times where it was executed once; it made but little impression upon the child, who was all absorbed in his fort.
Jane returned. In a few moments afterward, the quick, angry voice of the mother was heard ringing down the stairway.
"You, Tom! come up here this instant."
"I'm not troubling any thing, mother."
"Come up, I say!"
"Margaret says I may play with the clothes-pins. I'm only building a fort with them."
"Do you hear me?"
"Mother!"