Little Prudy's Sister Susy

e and pattering of little feet, and buzzing of little voices tr

tockings are?" buzzed Prud

lin; and if you don't take care w

Prudy; "and I've pricke

med Susy, indignantly: "I might have pricked my fi

they said nothing, only listened to the whispers of the children, which grew fai

ll the while they waited they were eating candy; so it was neither dull nor lonely. As for closing their eyes again, they would have scorned the idea. It would be a pity indeed to fall asleep, and lose the pleasure of saying "Merry

y: "you stay here, Prudy, for y

pleaded Prudy, her mouth hal

a little in their haste. Dotty made a sleepy sound of alarm, and Prudy could not help laughing, but onl

sy whispered, "O, Norah is up and gone d

e would have rushed down stairs, two steps at a t

little chair up here," said Prudy

ren groped their way down stairs,

tiently; "Norah'll be gone! What's the use of our waking u

Prudy, plunging forward and falling, cha

rudy screamed lustily. Grandma Rea

ence, has thee

d to speak, and Mr. Parlin ran down s

obbed the child. "I shouldn't-have

ficulty, as if she dropped a bucket into her f

ly; "and I was careless, and it was all in th

moment Susy had made what she considered due confession. "You never touche

the gas-light, while her mother rubbed her side, and the

ion for Prudy, who always liked

languidly, "when the room makes believe

faint and dizzy, thoug

ell down stairs, and not me, for I didn't go down eas

minutes she was skipping about the room almost as nimbly as ever, only

n, "that more children are not l

king hair-breadth escapes almost every day of their lives. I believe Prudy wou

verything else. But it is an ill wind which blows no good to anybody; and it so happened that in all

gain that morning, she told them they might dress themselves in the parlor if they

w arrangement of stealing about the house in the silent hours before daybreak. Susy thought she should l

o I can't see a single thing. Susy, I'm going to keep at watch of the sky. Don'

n the night. Look down at the pavement

ied Prudy, clapping her hands; "but it wouldn't have wake

e clouds go off?"

erhaps they are waiting till the

re, as they sat peeping out of

idge's wing." They were watching the clouds for a snow storm; but they never dreamed of such things as clou