Chapter 7 The Parent as Schoolmaster
‘The Schoolmaster will make him sit up!’––’sit up,’ that is, ‘come when he’s called,’ apparently, for the remark concerned a young person who went on spinning his top with nonchalance, ignoring an intermittent stream of objurgations from his mother, whose view was that bedtime had arrived. Circumstances alter cases, but is it unheard of in higher ranks of life to trust to the schoolmaster to make a child ’sit up’ after a good deal of mental and moral sprawling about at home?