ed, kept up a
terrible whine. "I wonder if Susan is sorry," said Sarah. "Not she, not
she, don't ask her here again," said they all. "Why not," said the
grandfather, who having walked about with Susy awhile, and talked
gravely to her, appeared to have brought about a change in her temper?
"Why because she will knock it down again the first time any thing puts
her out." "Won't you try her?" said Sarah, pleadingly; but they still
said "No! no!" "Don't you mind the day, Dick," said Sarah, "when you
pulled grandfather's new net all into the mud, and tangled his twine,
and spoilt him a whole day's work?" "Yes," said Dick. "Ah, and don't
you mind, too, when he went out in the boat next day, and you asked to
go with him, just as if nothing had happened, and you had done no harm,
he said, 'ah, Dick, if I were to mind what _revenge_ says, I would not
take you with me; you have injured me very much, but I'll mind what
_love_ says, and that tells me to return good for evil?'" "Yes," says
Dick. "Do you think you could have hurt any thing of grandfather's after
that?" "No," said Dick, "but I did not do it in a rage, as Susy did."
"You did mischief, though," said Sarah; "but I want Susy to give over
going into these rages. I want to cure her. Beating her does no good,
mother says that herself; wont you all try and help to cure Susy?"

These children were not angels. I am writing of children as they are you
know, and though they yielded, it was rather sullenly, and little Susan
was given to understand that she was not a very welcome addition. Susy
kept very close to Sarah, sobbing and heaving, till the children seeing
her subdued, made more room for her, and her smile returned. Now the
law of kindness prevailed, and when the time came to run down to the
shore for some more shells, to replace those that had been broken, Susy,
at Sarah's hint, ran first and fastest, and brought her little pinafore
fullest of all. Edith watched all this, and her good old mentor was
willing that she should. "I suppose you have taught them this way of
settling disputes," said Edith to Joe. "I, oh no, Miss, I can't take all
the credit. Sarah, there, she has taken to me very much since my Bob
died, and she said to me the day of his funeral, when her heart was soft
and tender-like, 'Grandfather, tell me what I can do to comfort you.'
'Oh, child,' says I, 'my grief is too deep for you to touch, but you are
a kind girl, I'll tell you what to do to-night. Leave m