Chapter 7. The Sofa
The boys took their places on the sofa, and afterwards laid their books upon the table. After that Madam Rachel began to talk about the occurrences of the day, as follows: -
“There are two or three things, boys, that I have been keeping to talk with you about this evening. One is the question you asked, Dwight, about Caleb’s disobeying me, when he fell into the water.”
“Yes, mother,” said Dwight, looking up at once, very eagerly; “you told him never to go near the bank; and yet he went, and so he fell in.”
“But I could not help it,” said Caleb.
“Why, yes, mother, he certainly could help it; for he walked there himself of his own accord.”
“Very well; that is the question for us to consider; but, first, we must all be in a proper state of mind to consider it, or e
