...youngest. I asked what a child like her most wanted. She answered, age and experience. I asked the next what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who...and when he won't listen to reason whip him. I asked Bran well what was the best way of knowing the difference between the intellects of men and women....

...BRANWELL, with mask.) Well, next door to it. (As PAPA.) Well, Mister Wiggins, what do you think is the best way of knowing the difference between the intellects of men and women? (As BRANWELL, with mask.) Well, you must look at how they are different in their bodies. (As PAPA.)...

...dissolute husband. Emily, aged five, said that the way to handle a naughty boy like Branwell, was to 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him'. Tall like her father, and most like him in temperament, her answer did forecast her fierceness, projected...

...What had I best do with your brother, Branwell, who is sometimes a naughty boy? WOMAN TWO (Emily). Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him. MAN TWO (Patrick). Branwell. What is the best way of knowing the differences between the intellects...

...and boldly. He once asked Emily what he should do with Branwell when he was at his most impossible: "Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him." She was six years old at the time, and clearly had a proclivity for drastic measures. When she was...

...the differences in their bodies; Emily, asked what to do with Branwell when he was naughty, replied, 'reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him' (an exact parallel to the sequence of events in the Appendix to Samuel Wilderspin's On the Importance...