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After a while, she made a dive into her pocket, and brought out another string. "Oh," cried Johnny Meline, "where did you get that?" "I found it." "That's Will Riley's top-string," said Johnny. "It was mine. He cheated me out of it by trading an old top that wouldn't spin." "That's the way you get your top-strings, is it, Will? Is this yours?" asked the tormenting Susan. "No, it isn't."
"The string's gone!" broke out Riley, after feeling up and down the tree for some half a minute. What could have become of it? They had been so near the sidewalk all the time that no one could have passed without their seeing him. The next day, at noon-time, when Susan Lanham brought out her lunch, it was tied with Pewee's new top-string, the best one in the school.
Is he angry because the top-string is tangled? Stay with him until he has learned that he can remove the cause of his own temper. Step by step, dealing with each excitement of anger, train him in self-control. Self-mastery is a matter of learning to direct and apply our own powers at will. It is developed by habitual practice. It is the largest general element in character.
He finds his knife in his pocket, as usual, and puts it back; the top-string is there; he drums the devil's tattoo, he wets his finger and smears the margin of the page as he whirls it over and then he finds "The Print of a Man's Naked Foot on the Shore!!!" Oh, Crackey! At this tremendous moment the novel reader who has genius drums no more.
"That's a very nice string," said Susan. "It's just like Pewee's top-string," cried Harry Weathervane. "Is it yours, Pewee?" said Susan, in her sweetest tones. "No," said the king, with his head down; "mine's at home." "I found this one, last night," said Susan. And all the school knew that she was tormenting Pewee, although they could not guess how she had got his top-string.
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