MOTHER,” said Mary, “I can’t make Henry put his figures as I tell him.”
“Be patient, my dear, and do not speak so sharply.”
“But he won’t let me tell him how to put the figures, and he does not know how to do it himself,” said Mary, pettishly.
“Well, my dear, if Henry won’t learn a lesson in figures, suppose you try to teach him a lesson in patience. This is harder to teach, and harder to learn than any lesson in figures and perhaps when you have learned this, the other will be easier to both.”
ML 10/07/1906