Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple

sy, Prudy, and Zip went to visit Mrs. East

d did not see her mother an

y, Nono? And

re going," replied Norah, setting a basin

y," cried Dotty, "Naughty

Dimple, and let m

u mustn't pull it; 'tisn't your hai

l be back again

her in the evening-w

n such a hurry to

r to whip Prudy. Naughty Prudy

air was being curled over a stick, and now was more un

to call in, and declared he must take his

're sure to be sorry if you take her, for

There, Nono," said she, "I's goin' to aunti

ht June day. Prudy said she had to sing to herself for all the things she saw looked as hap

Prudy to walk so z

astman they were coming. Then she allowed Prudy to walk as "zigzag"

stopping short, and standing on

she is eating t

e a pitchfork? Do you s'pose he knows how e

aughter is not afra

"Poh! if I was afraid of a cow I'd be a cow-ard. I'd as lief

freely when the co

ed what she called a "live bird's nest." Never having seen any young birds before, she wondered at first "who had pic

small birdies?" said Prudy. "Aren't you afraid th

ild. Suppose you feed the

arts with her thumb and forefinger, an

whole! they swallowed it whol

to witness that her mother allowed her to linger f

Eastman's, Prudy eagerly describe

tle widow-children,-how the mother was d

aughing; "it isn't possible! But if their

oking crestfallen. "I should think you might kn

ut her mother's neck, saying, "Is I your little comfort, mamma? I camed in the ho

Mrs. Parlin, at the tea table; "but cousin Percy alwa

re was one thing that made her nice supper taste like "spoiled nectar

yed seeing her punished. She was vexed because Prudy was allowed, after all, to sit at the table with the rest of the family. The little creature was very tired,

cousin Johnny, over a dead squirrel, which they bo

more! If you do, I s'an't w'ip you, Johnny, but I

d again to force open Bunny's stiff

handful of cold ashes, which she freely sifted into Johnny's flaxen hair.

little sister's bad conduct, "sometimes Dotty pretty nearly make

my heart. When she has these freaks of temper, I think, 'God bears with me, and I will try to bear with my

med, and declared she "would be good, she would be a comfort;" but her mother was firm, though her sweet temper never

le cousin back as he had been to bring her to his ho

dy parted the branches, but the nestlings were not to be seen;

em peep! Let's go; we'll frighte

ng they are; and now you never'll know. But it doesn't seem

d her three little children," sa

ow good our mother always is, and always was, before ever our reasons grew! Thin