Wicked boys fight like dogs and other brutes, by which they not only do each other great injury, but by such conduct they disgrace the human form and christian character. Here are seen two boys thus shamefully engaged. What a sight they present! Boys endowed with faculties capable of serving their Creator, and of planning means for each others' happiness are here seen wallowing in the mud and dirt, and striving to do each other harm! Perhaps one of these boys has for an excuse, that the other abused him and provoked him to such a degree that he could not endure it. Good children who happen to fall into the society of bad boys should immediately avoid their company, suffer abuse rather than resent it, render good for evil, and by so doing they will put to shame their enemies and gain the victory. Bears and lions, we know, sometimes growl and fight,
But children, you should never let such ugly passions rise:
Your little hands were never made to tear each others' eyes.