Little Prudy's Sister Susy

darke

orrow, will ha

ction that something unpleasant had occurred, th

econd thought. "Now, after I say my prayers

to the dining-room, just after breakfas

you know I want it

rcy Eastman, if here isn't your be

ep him, and be good to him,

own that he was just as good as a canary, only a great deal better. "The greater included the less." He had as sweet a voice, and a vast deal more compass. His

g Percy "a great favor," by accepting his beautiful present. She wondered in her own mind how

rudy herself could propel with only the outlay of a very little strength; but there were days when she did not ca

Her eyes were large and mournful, and seemed to be always asking for pity. She grew quiet and patient-"painfully pat

snip my fingers any nowadays do you? When I'

id not like to look at those little white fingers, which she was almost a

er a while. "Do you remember how you used to think I snipped your hands to

y, slowly and solemnly. "I know w

ty out of our hearts, d

d get the naughty out. Sometimes he sends the earache and the toothache to

that God knew all about it, and that somehow or other it was "all right." Her mother took a great deal of pain

verything then, and tried to amuse her. If this lameness was refining little Prudy, it was also making

s what Susy called an "old-fashioned little girl." She lived with a widowed mother, and had no brothers and sisters, so that she appeared much older than she really was. She

oom when Ruthie entered. Ruthie wen

. "I am delighted to see you, for Susy says y

o perfectly at home in addressing a young lady she had never seen before, t

and felt amused, for Ruthie knew nothing about politics either: she was as ignorant as Susy. She had only heard her mother and other ladies talking togeth

rd words in them, she thought of little Dotty, as she had seen her,

the dog got the upper-hand of Dotty, and I thin

tion of Proclapation." Then she said she and her mamma were very much "perplexed" when news came of the last defea

of matters too old for her that she made herself ridiculous. She was very

herself from her conversation with Ruth

id Prudy. "I'll be teac

"we'll let her; won't we, g

go, Susy, and ask grandma if I may have one of those shiny, white

"costume" as she needed, as well as a pair of spectacles without eyes, which the childr

he kitchen to behold her with her own eyes. The little soft face, almost lost in the folds of the expansive cap,

little likeness of gr

," said Susy: "grandma's name i

," said Pru

o queen ever held a court with more dignity than she assumed as she smoothed int

do first?" said

he most important word of all. "Why, th

had not collecte

" said Susy, "and then we'll a

opping the little carriage in which

ween Flossy and me," said Susy, who was determine

Miss Rosy Frances, peeping severely

in a row, holding their

ee-the whole school," was the stern remark of the young

doing anything," said R

have been doing something; thee'd

," pleaded Flossy; "you called us

; "I will, if thee'll speak up 'xtremely

"Yes, ma'am," at the

aring to read from the book, "

random. They did not know that their teach

tion took the

any man in

osy," said Susy; "wha

own when the other man was eatin' porridge. I should think, if he went bac

t of a recitation. Flossy said if there was a man in the moon, he must be a giant,

he had heard something of a woman up there, named "Cynthia;" but she supposed it was all "moonshine," or

r than all others, it was the sight of those waddling fowls, with their velvet heads, beads of eyes, and spotted feathers. When she saw them "marshin' along," she was instantly seized with a desire either to head the company or to march in the rear, and set them to qu

ght up stairs, the little g

f as good as Norah! I don't see why Electa and N

r mother always has!" sa

ne you'd like ever'n, ever so much

ould go hundreds of leagues to get a

ad! It's Norah's cou

a certain letter. Ruthie puzzled them a long while on the initial S. At last she said sh

id Susy. "I don't see where you

" replied Ruthie, looking quite pleas

ll some letter

es at your ho

could

it's that girl that lives there; she takes off the covers

. O., instead of L. R. But Prudy did not know much about spelling. She had known most o

read;" and Susy offered to teach her, but Mrs. Par

er when she said Annie was not a suitable playmate. In the eveni

to a room, and no matter how old the people are that are talking, she speaks up, and

e is rude, take care that the same fa

favor, "I don't know but it's proper to do as Ruthy does. If you know so

take the lead in it, and so prevent older people from talking. Neither is it pro

ear what you would say. I know Ruthie is ill-manner

ooked at Susy

me play with Annie Lovejoy. You said, 'ev

the cases, Susy? What a muddy little

rying to think; "they're both b

ng else

od, and Annie isn't. It was

ffend you. How would you like it to be treated in the same way? Suppose Mrs. Turner and Ruthie should be talking together this very minute. Ruthie says, 'That Susy Parlin k

and looked a l

dkerchief, "I guess I can't say anything about Ruthie Tu