Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple

d for the child. She felt very restless, because she had to give up "housekeeping" with Prudy, a very fascinating game, whi

d, "I wish grandpa wo

ng slowly over the rive

d, "I wish the earth wo

the parlor, like

use, 'cause it's got a top to

he sofa, looking out of the bay-window upon the garde

head. "I don't love my home, 'cause I live

nursery, and stood all alon

y mother'd let me be

too, that she had only a small fountain of tears back of her eyes. Prudy, entering the nu

said Prudy to herself. "That will be following the Golden Rule; for

lounge. The child turned around with a sudden smile. It cheered her to se

sick, though,

on. "I got 'most drowned, you know. O, I wish you'd stayed out in t

t heart. She was only trying, with her limited stock of words, to say that she lon

of my cough-candy? It's good! You may bite clea

dear, I don't ca

erous, and at the same time keep the candy! In her short life Dotty D

e, "suppose we play that you're sick,-as

little scre

g to the looking-glass; "it's real rusty.

n the lounge, and take medicine in the chest. Poor young lady, we shall be so glad when you

gh my hair." "I'll tell you the cause of that, my dear patient; I suspect your pillow's made of pin-feathers. Let me feel your pulse on the back of your

d you, and walk across the room,"

he-ahem!-pluribus unum." Here Dr. Prudy ran her fingers through her hair. "But it goes light t

some lemonade and nuts, for I'm drefful sic

bread, Dotty! wha

g petted to her heart's content,

vening s

hen I had the sores all wrinkled out on my face, on my ch

were a little Wedgewood teapot with hot water, a tiny sugar-bowl and cream

, springing off the sofa; "that little wai

hen she wished to set the table, that she might put on "the knives and forks, and so for

rgot," said the young patient; "a little tea

e family ate in the dining-room, Dotty took he

st, when the long and sharp ringing of t

Dimple?" said the remarkably

ent, holding up the empty glas

k to her supper, and had just finished her

ney again,"-so the patient said,-and a book in the w

himney was too much for the doctor's skill, si

girl. She had been dreadfully stung by a bee, which had buzzed its way out from the fireb

and peeped into the chimney. A nice, cosy beehiv

, being sustained by the promise

t, sweet home,' I

y get in the sugar-b

ed, Dotty showed

way to give her some castor-oil and molasses; that is

king her elbows-a thing she seldom did now. "I shan't le

mother, "is that the pr

face cleared

randma," said she, sweetly; "I

to the dust-pan, in all the days of their lives! I always thought y

a sweet pea, and peeped into

to let the oil slip right down my throat, j

very affectionate, and kissed everybody twice, all

lease." She loved to have the sheet laid straight. "D

sure He will. Your heavenly Father nev

her flushed cheek against the pillow. "Does he s

take care o' me most always, you know, but I'm drefful afraid

, the omnipresence and infinite goodness of God; and while she was

d there over the house, and Susy and Prudy were wakened from a deep

she could speak at all. "I can't breave if the window's

Susy. "I feel real sure she

ff her eyelashes. "God took care of me when I had the lameness,

"God loves us all; but that's no sign we can't die! Little children, no older than Dotty, have their breath snatched right away, and are co

t happen very ofte

k so! I feel just as if Dotty w

and if He wants her up in heaven He has a right to take her.

and it seems as if I could almost see a rainbow in your eyes!-There, it's gone now. Wh

o lie and think about the Saviour when I had the lameness.-Hark! Is

how they loved her till she showed her frail side, and they saw how slender was the thread which bound her to earth. When she was

n't kill her, the croup didn't, but it might have killed her; and I'm goi