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Title: Little Prudy's Sister Susy

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: November 29, 2004 [eBook #14202]

Language: English

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LITTLE PRUDY'S SISTER SUSY

by

SOPHIE MAY

New York
Hurst & Company
Publishers

[Illustration]

TO MY LITTLE NIECE Katie Clarke
THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU, KATIE, WITH THE LOVE OF YOUR AUNTIE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. KEEPING SECRETS
II. BEFORE DAYLIGHT
III. SUSY'S CHRISTMAS
IV. SUSY'S WINGS
V. PRUDY'S TROUBLE
VI. ROSY FRANCES EASTMAN MARY
VII. LITTLE TROUBLES
VIII. ANNIE LOVEJOY
IX. MORAL COURAGE
X. RUTHIE TURNER
XI. SUSY'S BIRTHDAY
XII. FAREWELL

PREFACE.

Here is a story about the oldest of the three little Parlin girls,
"sister Susy;" though so many things are always happening to Prudy that
it is not possible to keep her out of the book.

I hope my dear little friends will see how kind it was in God to send
the "slow winter" and the long nights of pain to little Prudy.

If trouble should come to us, let us grow gentle, and patient, and
lovely.

Little friends, be sure of one thing--our dear Father in heaven sends us
something hard to bear only because he loves us.

SISTER SUSY.

CHAPTER I.

KEEPING SECRETS.

We might begin this story of Susy Parlin on a New Year's day, only it is
so hard to skip over Christmas. There is such a charm about Christmas!
It makes you think at once of a fir tree shining with little candles and
sparkling with toys, or of a droll Santa Claus with a pack full of
presents, or of a waxen angel called the Christ-child.

And it is just as well to date from the twenty-fifth of December,
because, as "Christ was born on Christmas day," that is really the
"Happy New Year."

For a long while the three little Parlin girls had been th