Besides tormenting her fellow-creatures Amelia had a trick of teasing animals. She was really fond of dogs but she was still fonder of doing what she was wanted not to do and of worrying everything and everybody about her. So she used to tread on the tips of their tails and pretend to give them biscuit and then hit them on the nose besides pulling at those few long sensitive hairs which thin-skinned dogs wear on the upper lip.