Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple

ght herself quite as old and wise as either of her sisters. Every Sunday morning it made

plaintively. "Me's got the co

from her pouting lips, "if you've g

"Coop's went off now. D

t home and look at your pictures. Th

ool." Then suddenly showing her dimples, she added with a bright smile, "'Cause I's y

ay at home. I'll ask mother to let her go with me next time. It is right

t at last consented. She felt pretty safe to trust her with Prudy,

fore the mirror, looking up at her gay hat and down at her cunning gaiters. S

r vain little head, and smiling till her dimples "twinkl

cried Susy; "we'l

he pavement, Dotty walk

," said Prudy, "because D

usy. "Any one would think she'd been eating snails. When s

imple, tossing her head. "I nev

ad forgotten something. She had left home without kissing her mother good by,

she, catching her breath. "Now, Dotty

aid Dotty, scowlin

ound on the ground a good while. It's most

eaven?" said Prudy, gazing at the stre

pearls.' And my Sabbath school teacher tells us that after a while the sun draws it back, and makes clouds of i

how does the snow go up

in fog. Why, it's just as if the snow was a

when it fogs, I shall kn

ry quiet on the street, for it's Sunday. You don't mean any harm, Prudy, but you say so

ok, and Prudy learned verses from the Bible. Dotty Dimple went with Prudy int

hing Prudy. "Mother allowed her to come to-day because

rather nervous. She made a place beside herself for Dotty, who folded her small hands and sat as still

er verse: "Set a watch, O Lord, befor

ke me very happy if I thought you would remember it a

to say only what is true and good

u understand what is called the 'figure of spee

thing th

e in cities watchmen, to guard us and s

se asks God to give us a conscience to walk b

tty fixed her bright eyes on her face, thinking, "What boof

se was Sadie

unto my feet, and a

ng to learn why it was that people should sit with a lamp shining on their feet. She thought she co

knew whether to be angry or not. "I guess the lady didn't see me," thought Dotty. So she cleared her throat with a loud noise, which echoed across the room. Then Miss Carlis

peakin' to yo

oor girl was crimson with shame; "let your little sist

, and let Dotty place her

o you wish,

my werse," whispered D

Did you learn

. I learned it

hen say it, by a

but one might as well coax the wind to stop blowing. The child'

hisper?" a

your vers

f the class, and recited, in a high

hpose um ha

eans, un bre

of her shame and distress, shook with laughter; bu

come again, if I once do get her s

before she forgot some of the things she had heard Miss Carlisle say. Many of the str

order the paper dolls, which Dotty had scattered over the floor. They were a sad sight. Some of them had

de. Her thoughts were of other matters. She had brought f

r shoes and stockings. She looked for a moment at her little pink toes, then rubbe

ck the chimney, and, though there was certainly blaze enough in the matches, it

Prudy now felt the heat, and screamed too, bringing her mother and Norah to the spot at

e understood what Dotty had b

amp to my feet," sobbed she. "

tears were soon dried by a

ight. "You said, if I'd been wearing my calico, mother, I'd have been scorched. And you k