four years of age, a little girl of the family…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

four years of age, a little girl of the family which had adopted him teased him by calling him names. He seized a butcher knife and frightfully wounded her, so that for a long time it was doubtful if she would live. She recovered, but her face is greatly disfigured by the knife wounds which the little wretch made. He was whipped unmercifully for this, but bore the pun- ishment without a murmur.