Little Prudy

t to let you go strawberrying 'up by the Pines'

ny Gordon went there yesterday, a

id grandma. "If he should catch any children in his fi

dge, "Prudy isn't fit to wal

here, you may take your little baskets and go out in the meadow on the

ren were on their way to the meadow; "and aunt Madge always sa

t when Horace went down to the 'crick' fishing, you and I might go off by ourselves, and have a nice time for once. But here

," said Susy. "Some folks

well as she could, "I guess you don't love your l

cking more leaves than berries, and sometimes, in her haste

; "there ain't more than ten strawberries in t

r the worst. "I suppose we've got to stay here, though. We could go up in

t without she would be sure to follow. Do you t

talking to himself. I ain't a bit afraid of him. What could we little girls do to

tfully. "Now if we could

er," and looked up, showing a pair

child. "Bime-by I shall go to heaven, and I shan't n

ooking at Susy; "we mustn't take

's what I'm goin' to do," said Prudy, "and when I say

ard the Pines, feeling far from happy, for a "st

ll, when, looking back, there was Pru

gone home," said

l back again; "I couldn't get home-'cause-I got my feet

eep hill. Prudy had one hearty cry before the long walk was over. "Her nose fell o

they had at last reached the field, and were seated in t

glad to see our baskets full they'll certainly be glad we

m The Fiel

that still, small voice, and they tried

dy had covered the bottom of hers with leaves, stems, and a fe

ered Susy, "that

e, on which he was sh

e thought that these little children-ah, would have come into my field-ah, and trampled down

n a sack of wool instead of flesh and blood,-their hair flying in the wind, and their poor little hearts pounding against their sides like trip-ham

arm, and her sleeve was soaking in the red juice of the bruised strawberries, while littl

sobbed Prudy, as soon as she could find her

ied Susy, in terror. "He's a

when the panting children rushed

k man," cried Prudy,

that wicked Mr. Judkins,

od comes a-runnin' down, and he kills you dead, and then he put

a and aunt Madge in one breath. "Have y

Susy hung

ll, and they shouldn't have gone and took me

that disobey me in this manner?

g off Prudy's shoes, "this child has go