Publisher's Synopsis
It was certainly an aggravated offence. It is generally understood in families that "boys will be boys," but there is a limit to the forbearance implied in the extenuating axiom. Master Sam was condemned to the back nursery for the rest of the day. He always had had the knack of breaking his own toys, -he not unfrequently broke other people's; but accidents will happen, and his twin sister and factotum, Dot, was long-suffering.
