Little Prudy's Sister Susy

eigh a very comfortable affair; and so, I think, did "lame Jessie." When her father found that Susy had really chosen for h

, and flew away to the other end of the world, where her aunt Madge

ountain was; but she poured her life all out into tears, cryin

en," said Florence,

well, I declare, I've forgotten,-no, 'twas Bellerophon; and he had a bridle, and wanted a horse. O, do you know this horse was

ned, and wax

e mountain the horse trotted round on was called Helicon. And the man mou

here, you've told enough! I don't w

led, you needn't; that's all I can say; but the young man l

lossy looked very

bravely, "right between his eyes; and he almost kisses me.

garment, and, putting it on the little thing

don't you, Susy? It is trimmed with ermine, bec

rently, "but it isn't ermine; it's only wh

replied Florence; "but I play th

e hasn't any more sense than a stick of wood, eithe

iry notions as a dandelion top. I love Queen Mab as if she was my own sister," continued Flossy, in a pettish tone. "You know I do, Susy

with a curl of the lip. "Anything that isn't alive, and hasn't any sense, and don't

to place; "for the very reason I like my doll, is because she isn't alive. I wouldn't ha

t to put any seed in the bottle, and he stuck h

choking," said Florence; "and now your new

sy, a good deal vexed. "I like Grace Clifford ten t

nce, with a rising color; "you're such a pe

my tongue? Here this very morning I said in m

gan to put

n't go. I didn't mean to tell that I liked Gracie best; but it's the

h better. Florence put on her h

know I do. You're hateful sometimes; but so a

laughed merrily, took off her hood and cloak

'll stay just on pu

es, and the little girls were soon talking t

hen," said Susy, "and you

selves," replied Florence, follow

ll in the world I have against Da

she always performed with her own hands. She moved one side to make room for Susy's bird-cage,

lf, Susan. Little birds know what is best fo

en very positive. "Mrs. Mason says so-the lady that gave him to me

that it was of a proper temperature, according to her own judgment. Then she plunged the timid little canary into the bowl, in spite of his

to a baby; "be a little man, Dandy; hold up his head, and let Susy wash it

usan," said grandma Re

birdie gay. He curled down very languidly on the fl

ld not give up the point; "but Mrs. Mason told me to do it! Dot

he kitchen, "I must ask Mrs. Mason if she is very s

happy again. O, you cunning little Dandy, now we'll hang you up in th

oo," said little Prudy, "

and looking at grandma Read. "Do you know, mother, that for several days she has mad

face; I can't never help hopping; I have to hop. My knee was

has been hurt in some way, my

r knee, and there is nothing the matter with it. She is only imitating that lame child. You know

as I do, and then, in a few minutes, when she thinks of it, she will limp and take hold of chairs. Mother, isn

dy is really becoming naughty and deceitful. I thought once it was only her funny way of pla

ce. She was a faithful mother, and watched he

mother bade her do so, the poor child cried bitterly, said it hurt her, and she was so tired she wished they would let her lie on the sofa, and never get up. At times she

ather called

his child been

th or

had an injury, Mr. Parlin, such as slip

ied Mr. Parlin,

d across her forehead, and trying to remember. "No, I think Prudy has ne

a fall: don't you know, Christmas day, ever so long ago, how she went rol

caught at S

er arms, my dear? And did s

he prongs of the chai

ten all about it. "Susy spoke so quick, and said I was a lit

such a plaintive voice, as if Prudy could not think o

little daughter," said he; fo

to bear her we

knee-foot,' came down so long,

in her knee, but in her hip, which had really been injured when she f

any pain in her side; but the doctor said it was very common for p

. It came over her in a moment, the thought of what her little daughter would have to suffer-days and nights of pain, an

st suffer, if by that means she could have saved her? This is the feeling which mothers have when any