The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.

The Little Colonel's House Party (ed. tredition, 2012) - ISBN: 9783847203827