Before the district-judge went away, he put his hand into his pocket and gave the boys some money; then, merrily riding to Tondern, he rendered the same judgment as the boys had given. The fellow was unable to save himself without assistance, and was like to have been drowned; consequently, his rescuer won the case" (508. 87, 88). The other case, said to have occurred at Rapstede, was this:-- "A tailor and a peasant, both possessing nothing more than a wretched hut, made a bargain for so and so many bushels of corn at such and such a price, although the tailor knew that the peasant had no money, and the peasant knew that the tailor had a needle, but no corn. Soon the price of corn rose, and the peasant appeared before the court to demand that the tailor should fulfil his part of the bargain. The judges were at a loss to decide such a matter. In this case, also, boys rendered judgment. The decision was, that the agreement was invalid, for both, being neighbours, had known each other's circumstances, and yet both were culpable for having entered into such a deceitful bargain" (508. 88). These decisions belong to the same category as that rendered by Solomon in the case of the two women, who both claimed the same child,--a judgment which has gone upon record in the Bible (1 Kings, iii. 16-28),--and a multitude of similar interpretations of justice found all over the world (191. 290). Mr. Newell, speaking of children's games in which judicial procedures are imitated, but from whose decisions no serious results ever come, observes (313. 123):-- "In the ancient world, however, where the courts were a place of resort, and law was not a specialized profession, the case was different. Maximus of Tyre tells us that the children had their laws and tribunals; condemnation extended to the forfeiture of toys. Cato the younger, according to Plutarch, had his detestation of tyranny first awakened by the punishment inflicted on a playmate by such a tribunal. One of the younger boys had been sentenced to imprisonment; the doom was duly carried into effect; but Cato, moved by his cries, rescued him." _Children's Ideas of Right_. Mr. Brown, of the formal School at Worcester, Massachusetts, has given us an excellent collection of _Thoughts and Reasonings of Children_ (194), and Signora Paola Lombroso, in her interesting and valuable _Essays on Child-Psychology_, has also contributed to the same subject (301. 45-72). A very recent study is that of _Children's Rights_, by Margaret E. Schallenberger (341), of Leland Stanford, Jr. University, California. The last author has charted the opinions of a large number--some three thousand papers were collected--of boys and girls from six to sixteen years of age, upon the following case, the story being employed as specially appealing to children (341. 89):--