Little Prudy

grandma Read has to wait for somebody's little fingers before

the rag-bag, and that was th

dy might get hurt, for there were a great many loose boards and tools lying about, and the carpenters, who were at work on the ho

e she got to thinking of something else. The little one wanted to play

ishes and scour knives when I was four years old, and that was the time

'em: I'll go get a axe." Little Prudy trotted off, and Susy never look

g; so she put on her bonnet and went over to the "new house." Susy was still b

said Mrs. Parlin

eaven," cried a li

hree ladders to get there. Her mother had heard her say the day before that "she didn't want to shut up her ey

ely on the way to heaven, for she can nev

y, but her mother gave her one warning glance, an

f she had been frozen! Her trembling lips moved a little, but it

ot speak, lest the sound of her voice should startle the child; but she had a bunch of keys in her pock

down and smiled. "You goin' to let me have some c

at deal sadder than tears, though Prudy did n

ause I like cake and 'serves. I wo

Parlin held her breath, and shut her eyes. She dared not look up, for she knew

y eagerly about crimson jellies and fruit cake. She crept down the ladders withou

little feet went pat,-pat,-on the ladder rounds. God was taking care of he

held little Prudy close to her heart;

e got her! O, ain't

neck. "Ain't I your little comfort?-there, now, you know what you spe