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"That's a good girl to mind so nice," said Mrs. Jones; "and your ma's a real lady, and she's bringing you up to be ladies too." Maggie ran off to the parlor, glad that she had made friends with Mrs. Jones. She found her mother and Aunt Helen and Aunt Annie all making mottoes. They had sheets of bright-colored tissue pa...
"You have an Uncle Robert," said Bessie. "Pooh! he's no good," said Mamie. "He's not nice and kind and funny, like your Uncle John. He's as cross as anything, and he wont let us make a bit of noise when he's in the room. He says children are pests; and when papa laughed, and asked him if he said that because he remembe...
"Are we not having a real nice time, Bessie?" asked Gracie Howard. "Yes," said Bessie; "but I do wish my soldier and Mrs. Yush could come to our party." "What makes you care so much about Colonel Rush?" asked Gracie. "He's such a big man." "He isn't any bigger than my father," said Bessie; "and I love my father dearly,...
"Oh, I didn't mean that," said Gracie; "I meant he's so old. You'd have to love your father, even if you didn't want to, because he is your father, and he takes care of you. But Colonel Rush isn't anything of yours." "He is," said Bessie; "he is my own soldier, and my great, great friend; and he loves me too." "I know ...
"And so do I," said Maggie, who had come to see why Bessie was not playing; "but we can't have him, 'cause he can't walk up this bank, and the carriage can't come here, either. I just wish there wasn't any bank." "Why, what is the matter?" asked Uncle John. "Here is the queen of the day looking as if her cup of happine...
"He could sit still and look at us," said Maggie. "And we could look at him," said Bessie. "We are very fond of him, Uncle John." "I know you are," said Uncle John, "and so you should be, for he is very fond of you, and does enough to please you. But I am very fond of you too, and I am going to make a fox of myself, to...
Even Toby seemed to forget himself for a moment or two; and once, when the chickens were all flying over the grass, screaming and laughing, he sprang up from his post on the porch, where he had been quietly watching them, and came bounding down among them with a joyous bark, and seized hold of the fox by the coat tails...
"That sounds just like my soldier's crutches," said Bessie. "But then it couldn't be, because he never could get up the bank." But it seemed that the colonel could get up the bank, for as Bessie said this, she turned, and there he stood at the door, with Mrs. Rush at his side, both looking very smiling. "Oh, it is, it ...
"What do you want to do, Maggie?" asked Tom Norris, as he saw her red in the face, and all out of breath. "I want to take it to the door, so that he need not walk another step. Please help me, Tom," said Maggie, looking at the colonel who stood leaning on his crutches, and shaking hands with all the friends who were so...
"Because I did not know myself that I should be able to when the time came; and I was vain enough to think you and Bessie would be disappointed if I promised and did not come after all. I knew I should be disappointed myself; so I thought I would say nothing till I was on the spot. Would you have liked it better if I h...
After supper Fred whispered to his father, and receiving his permission, proposed "three cheers for Bessie's soldier, Colonel Rush." The three cheers were given with a hearty good-will, and the room rang again and again. "Three cheers for all our soldiers," said Harry; and these were given. Then Walter Stone cried, "Th...
"Poor Maggie! That was almost too much, was it not?" said her mother, as she lifted her up and seated her on her knee. "Oh, mamma, it was dreadful!" said Maggie, almost crying, and hiding her face on her mother's shoulder. "How could they?" "Never mind, dear; they only did it out of compliment to you, and they thought ...
Maggie's trouble was forgotten when Uncle John jumped up and began a droll speech, which made all the children laugh, and in a few moments she was as merry as ever again. "So this has been a happy day?" said the colonel, looking down at Bessie, who was sitting close beside him, as she had done ever since he came in. "O...
"No," said Bessie; "but that's no difference. I like Maggie's birthday just as much as mine, only I like hers better, 'cause I can give her a present." "Does she not give you a present on your birthday?" "Yes; but I like to give her one better than to have her give me one; and it was such a great part of the happiness ...
"You know, even if you did not give me that beautiful doll, it would be 'most the same; for Maggie would let me call hers half mine; but I am very glad you did give it to me. Oh, I'm _very_ satisfied of this day." "Wasn't this a nice day?" Bessie said to her sister, when their little friends were gone, and they were sn...
_THE ADVENTURE._ There was a dreadful storm that week, which lasted several days, and did a great deal of damage along the coast. The sky was black and angry with dark, heavy clouds. The great waves of the ocean rolled up on the beach with a loud, deafening roar, the house rocked with the terrible wind, and the rain po...
"Yes; and what did the Lord say to him?" "Well done, good and faithful servant," said Maggie, who, provided she had an answer, was not always particular it was the right one. Mrs. Bradford smiled a little. "We are not told the Lord said that," she answered, "though he was doubtless pleased that Noah's first act should ...
"A rainbow," said Maggie. "What did he tell Noah it should be?" "I forgot that," said Maggie; "he said it should be a sign that the world should never be drowned again." "Yes; the Lord told Noah he would make a covenant with him 'that the waters should no more become a flood to destroy the earth;' and he made the rainb...
"I am glad God made the rainbow, 'cause it is so pretty," said Maggie; "but I think Noah might have believed him without that, when he took such care of him in the ark." "Probably he did; we are not told that Noah did not believe, and it was of his own great goodness and mercy that the Almighty gave to Noah, and all wh...
"Franky don't like this great wind either, mamma," said Maggie, "and he said something so funny about it this morning. It was blowing and blowing, and the windows shook and rattled so, and Franky began to cry and said, 'I 'fraid.' Then nurse told him not to be afraid, 'cause God made the wind blow, and he would take ca...
Maggie and Bessie were down on the beach with their father and Colonel Rush when Mr. Howard joined them, and told them some of the sad scenes he had just seen. The little girls were very much interested, and the gentlemen seemed so too. Mr. Bradford and Mr. Duncan gave them money, and the colonel, too, pulled out his p...
"In a minute, papa," said Bessie; "my dolly's hat has come off, and I must put it on." "We'll go on then," said her father; "you can run after us." The gentlemen walked on, while Bessie began to put on Miss Margaret Horace Rush Bradford's hat. "Oh, Maggie!" she said, "there's Lily Norris going out in the boat with her ...
Maggie ran on, leaving Bessie alone. The boy came a little nearer. Bessie put on her doll's hat, and was going after her sister, when she dropped her doll's parasol, and as she stooped to pick it up, she saw the pocket-book. "Oh, there's my soldier's porte-monnaie!" she said to herself; "I know it is; I'll take it to h...
"What?" asked Bessie, drawing back from him. "Don't you make believe you don't know,--that pocket-book. It's mine." "It isn't," said Bessie; "it's the colonel's." "No, 'taint; it's mine. Hand over now, else I'll make you."
"I sha'n't," said Bessie. "I know it's the colonel's. I've seen it a great many times, and just now he gave Mr. Howard some money out of it for the poor people who lost all their things." "Are you going to give it to me?" said the boy, coming nearer to her. "No," said Bessie, "I am not. I am going to give it to the col...
"Leave my Bessie be! Leave my Bessie be!" she screamed, flying upon the boy, and fastening with both her hands upon the arm with which he was tearing away the spencer and feeling for the pocket-book, while he held Bessie with the other. "Let go!" he said, fiercely, between his teeth. But Maggie only held the tighter, s...
"Let go!" cried the boy, as he saw Mr. Bradford, letting go his own hold on Bessie, and giving Maggie a furious blow across the face. But fearing he would seize Bessie again, brave little Maggie held fast. "Take that, then!" said the boy, giving her another and a harder blow. Maggie fell, striking her head against the ...
This afternoon, the moment Joe appeared, Toby seemed to suspect mischief. He straightened himself up, put his head on one side, cocked up one ear and drooped the other. Toby was not a handsome dog at the best of times, and it was not becoming to him to hold his ears in this fashion. He looked very fierce as he sat thus...
Mr. Howard kept his hand on Joe's shoulder, but there was not much need, for Toby still held him fast, and if he made the least move, gave him a hint to keep still, which Joe thought it best to mind. Mr. Bradford carried Maggie to the house, and the rest followed; but it was a long time before any one could make out wh...
"And what's to be done about your poor mother?" said Mr. Jones, when he had heard the story. "I shall have to have you up for this. It will go nigh to kill her." Joe made no answer, only looked more sullen and obstinate than ever. "Mr. Jones," said Maggie, in a weak little voice, "please take him away; it frightens me ...
"I didn't think about that," said Maggie, "and if I had, I couldn't let anybody do anything to my Bessie. I thought he was going to kill her. Oh, dear! oh, dear!" and Maggie began to cry again; she could not have told why, except that she could not help it. "Come along," said Mr. Jones, taking hold of Joe's arm. "Mr. J...
"But I'm 'fraid it will break his mother's heart," said Bessie; "Mrs. Jones said it would." "He's breakin' his mother's heart fast enough, any way," said Mr. Jones. "Drinkin' and swearin' and stealin' and idlin' round, when he ought to be a help to her, poor, sick body! It isn't goin' to do him nor his mother no harm f...
Joe walked away with Toby at his heels. Maggie's head was bound up, and her bruises washed with arnica, and both she and Bessie were petted and comforted. As for the new doll, which Maggie had thrown down in her haste to run to her little sister's help, it was picked up by one of the gentlemen, who brought it safe and ...
"Papa," said Maggie, the next morning, as she sat on his knee at the breakfast-table, leaning her aching little head against his breast,--"papa, is there anything in the paper about our 'sault and battery?" "About what?" "Our 'sault and battery," said Maggie. "The other day, Uncle John was reading to Aunt Helen how Mr....
"Do you think that there should be?" asked Mrs. Bradford. "Oh, no, mamma; I'm very glad there isn't. I thought maybe the paper-maker would hear about it, and put it into his paper; and I didn't want people to be reading about Bessie and me. Do you think he would do it another day, papa?" "I think not, dear; you need no...
"Yes, you little speck of nothing ground down to a point," said Uncle John, catching Bessie up in his arms, "how dared you hold your ground against such a great rough boy as that?" "Why, it was the colonel's pocket-book," said Bessie, "and he was going to take it, and it wasn't his; so I _had_ to take care of it, you k...
"Holloa! what is all this heap of pennies for?" asked the colonel, a while after, as he came into Mrs. Jones' parlor, and found Maggie and Bessie, like the famous king, "counting out their money." He had come up the bank and paid them a visit two or three times since Maggie's birthday, so that they were not very much s...
"Yes, we have," said Bessie, "and we don't want it for ourselves." "Who for, then?" "For those poor shipyecked people. Papa and Uncle John have gone over to see them; and mamma and Aunt Helen have gone to the village to buy some flannel and calico to make things for the poor little children who have lost theirs. Mr. Ho...
"And she wanted mamma to let her hem a pock'-han'kerchief and earn some money," said Bessie, "but she can't, for the doctor says she musn't use her eye while it's so black." "Well," said the colonel, "I think you two have fairly earned the right to dispose of at least half the money that was in that unfortunate pocket-...
"And they are quite right," said the colonel. "I should not like you to do it, if you were my little girls. But I do not mean that I will give _you_ the money, only that I will give it away for any purpose you may choose. Your father and mother can have no objection to that. There were fifty dollars in the pocket-book....
"Well, you are two forgiving little souls," said the colonel. "Do you want me to give money to the mother of the boy who treated you so?" "_She_ didn't treat us so," said Maggie, "and we would like her to be helped 'cause she's so very poor. She cried about the pocket-book, and she is a good woman. She couldn't help it...
"Now, suppose we go out on the piazza," said the colonel; "Mrs. Rush is there talking to Grandpa Duncan, and I told them I would come out again when I had seen you." "But there's no arm-chair out there," said Maggie. "Never mind; the settee will do quite as well for a while." But when Mrs. Jones happened to pass by, an...
"What are you thinking of, Bessie?" asked the colonel, after he had talked to Mr. Duncan for some time. Bessie was sitting on the piazza step, looking at Toby with a very grave face, as he lay beside her with his head in her lap. "I am so sorry for Toby," she answered. "Why, I think he is as well off as a dog can be. H...
"But he hasn't any soul to be saved," said the child. "He does not know that," said the colonel, carelessly; "it does not trouble him." "But," said Bessie, "if he had a soul, and knew Jesus died to save it, he would be a great deal happier. It makes us feel so happy to think about that. Isn't that the yeason people are...
"There are some people who know they have souls to be saved, who don't think about it, and don't care if Jesus did come to die for them; are there not, grandpa?" said Maggie. "Yes, Maggie, there are very many such people." "Then they can't be happy," said Bessie,--"not as happy as Toby, for he don't know." "I don't bel...
"I am afraid not," answered Mr. Duncan. "Grandpa," said Bessie, "if people know about their souls, and don't care, I don't think they are much better than Toby." "But, grandpa," said Maggie, "Toby behaves just as if he knew some things are naughty, and other things right. How can he tell if he has no soul? How did he k...
"What is that?" "We cannot tell exactly. It is something which God has given to animals to teach them what is best for themselves and their young. It is not reason, for they have no soul nor mind as men, women, and children have; but by it some animals, such as dogs and horses, often seem to know what is right and wron...
"He did such a funny thing the other day," said Maggie, "when Fred played him a trick. You know he brings Mr. Jones' old slippers every evening, and puts them by the kitchen door, so Mr. Jones can have them all ready when he comes from his work. You tell it, Bessie, it hurts my face to speak so much." "Well," said Bess...
"No, dear; Toby has no conscience. If he knows the difference between right and wrong in some things, it is partly instinct, partly because he has been taught. Conscience is that which makes us afraid of displeasing God, and breaking his holy laws, but Toby feels nothing of this. He is only afraid of displeasing his ma...
"It will die with the dog. It is mortal; that is, it must die; but our souls are immortal; they will go on living for ever and ever, either loving and praising God through all eternity, or sinking down to endless woe and suffering. Toby is a good, wise, faithful dog, and knows a great deal, but the weakest, the most ig...
"I wonder if they think about for ever and ever and ever." No one answered her. Not a word had the colonel said since Bessie had said that she thought those who did not care for their souls were no better than Toby; but he sat with his eyes sometimes on her, sometimes on the dog, and his face, which was turned from his...
Nurse and Jane had taken all the children for a long walk. About a mile up the shore lived the woman who took in Mrs. Bradford's washing. Mrs. Bradford wished to send her a message, and told Jane to go with it. There were two ways by which this house could be reached: one by the shore, the other by a road which ran far...
"I don't believe father would let us," said Fred. "He said we must not the day before yesterday, and the water is as high now as it was then." "Let's go back, then," said Harry. "I don't want to stay here doing nothing." "No," said Fred. "Let's go on with Jane to the washer-woman's. She has a pair of guinea-fowls, with...
A tree which had been blown down by the gale lay near the bridge, and on this nurse sat down with baby on her knee, and Bessie and Franky beside her. Franky sat on the end of the log, toward the water, where he was quite safe, if he sat still, and nurse meant to keep a close eye on him. But something happened which mad...
Suddenly the sound of wheels was heard, and looking round, they saw Miss Adams' pony carriage, with the lady driving, and the little groom behind. Several times since the day when Miss Adams had teased Bessie, and Bessie had called her a kitchen lady, she had shown a wish to speak to the little girl; but she could neve...
"I'd yather not," said Bessie, taking hold of nurse's dress, as if she feared Miss Adams might take her off by force. "You don't know how pleasant it is," said Miss Adams,--"come." "I don't want to yide," said Bessie. All this time nurse had been looking very grim. She was quite an old woman, and had lived in the famil...
"And she wouldn't be let, if she did want to," she said sharply to Miss Adams. The young lady looked at the old woman with a sparkle in her eye. "I'll take the baby, too, if you like," she said, mischievously; "I can drive quite well with her on my lap, and Bessie can sit beside me." "My baby!" said nurse, who seemed t...
"I'm not likely to do that," said Miss Adams, turning round and driving off once more, "Well, good-by, Bessie, since you wont come." She had gone but a short distance, when she drew in the ponies again, jumped out, tossed the reins to the groom, and ran back to the bridge. "Bessie," she said, "I want to speak to you; w...
"No, I'm not," said Bessie. "Well, I'll go." "Not with my leave," said nurse. "If you have anything to say, just say it here, miss. You can't have anything to tell this child her old nurse can't hear." "Yes, I have," said Miss Adams. "Come, Bessie. I shall not pull your hair. I want to speak to you very much. Don't you...
"Sit ye still," said nurse, without looking at Miss Adams. "I sha'n't let ye go to have I know not what notions put into your head." Miss Adams looked vexed, and bit her lip, then she laughed. "Now, don't be cross, nurse. I am not going to say anything to Bessie which you or her mother would not approve." "Maybe," said...
"Maybe," said nurse again, beginning to trot baby rather harder than she liked. Miss Adams stood tapping the toe of her gaiter with her riding whip. "I promise you," she said, "that I will let her come back to you in a moment or two, and that I will not do the least thing which could trouble or tease her." "Promises an...
These last words were said in a startled tone and with a frightened look. Nurse turned her head, started up, and then stood still with fear and amazement. Finding himself unnoticed, Master Franky had concluded that he had sat quiet long enough, and slipping off his stone, he had scrambled up the bank and walked upon th...
"Nosin' at all; Franky dood boy. Didn't fall in water." "And whose fault is that I should like to know," said Miss Adams, laughing and shaking her dripping skirts, "you little monkey? I do not know but I should have done better to let you fall into the water and be well frightened before I pulled you out." "Franky not ...
"That he is," said nurse, speaking in a very different way from that in which she had spoken before. "And where would he have been now but for you and the kind Providence which brought you here, miss? What would I have done, with the baby in my arms and he standing there? I'd never have thought of catching him that way...
"Surely I will," said nurse; "but you are not going to stand and talk in such a pickle as that? You'll catch your death of cold." "No fear," said Miss Adams, "I am tough. Come now, Bessie." She held out her hand to the little girl, and now that she had saved her brother, she went with her willingly. She was not afraid ...
"Now," she said, leaning her arms upon the wall, "I want to ask you something." "I know what you want to ask me," said Bessie, coloring. "What is it, then?" "You want me to say I'm sorry 'cause I said that to you the other day, and I am sorry. Mamma said it was saucy. But I didn't mean to be saucy. I didn't know how to...
"You need not be sorry, Bessie. I deserved it, and it was not that I was going to speak about. I wanted to ask you to forgive me for being so unkind to you. Will you?" "Oh, yes, ma'am! I did forgave you that day, and mamma told me something which made me very sorry for you." "What was it? Would she like you to repeat i...
Miss Adams stood silent a moment, and then she said, slowly,-- "Yes, if my mother had lived, Bessie, I might have been different. I suppose I do many things I should not do if I had a mother to care about it; but there is no one to care, and I don't know why I should myself. I may as well take my fun." "Miss Adams," sa...
"Then don't she care up there?" "I don't know. They say heaven is a happy place. I should not think my mother could be very happy even there, if she cared about me and saw me now." "Do you mean she wouldn't like to see you do those things you say you ought not to do?" "Yes."
"Then why don't you do things that will make her happy? I would try to, if my mother went to heaven." "What would you do?" "I don't know," said Bessie. "I suppose you would not pull little girls' hair, or tease them, or behave like a kitchen lady."
"Please don't speak of that any more," said Bessie, coloring. "And your mother thinks I have too much money; does she? Well, I do not know but I have, if having more than I know what to do with is having too much." "Why don't you give some away?" Bessie asked. "I do, and then am scolded for it. I drove down the other d...
Bessie did not know what to make of this odd young lady, who was talking in such a strange way to her, but she could not help feeling sorry for her as she stood leaning on the wall with a tired, disappointed look on her face, and said these words in a troubled voice. "Miss Adams," she said, "why don't you ask our Fathe...
"You shall go, but I would like to hear what you were going to say. To make me what?" "To make you behave yourself," said Bessie, gravely, not quite sure she was doing right to say it. But Miss Adams laughed outright, then looked grave again. "There are plenty of people would like to take care of my money, Bessie, and ...
Bessie was sure this was not right, but she did not like to tell Miss Adams so. "But I am sorry I shocked you, Bessie, and made you think me no lady. Now tell me that you forgive me, and shake hands with me. I am going away to-morrow, and may never see you again." Bessie put her little hand in Miss Adams', and lifted u...
The young lady looked pleased, and stooping, she kissed her two or three times, then took her hand to lead her back to nurse. Nurse was just rising from her seat and looking anxiously up at the sky. "There's a cloud coming over the sun," she said; "I'm afraid it is going to rain." "I expect it is," said Miss Adams; "I ...
"Oh, nursey!" called Maggie, "it's going to gust. We thought you would be gone home. Why, there's Miss Adams!"--and Maggie stopped. Not only she, but all the rest of the party were very much surprised to see Miss Adams standing there, and seeming so friendly with Bessie and nurse. But there was no time to say anything....
Nurse made no objections now to the "gimcrack." She thought of nothing but how to get her babies home before the storm should overtake them. She bundled into the carriage with baby, while Miss Adams, laughing as if she enjoyed the fun, packed in Maggie, Bessie, and Franky beside her. "Hurry up, now, Tip!" she said to t...
"But where are Harry and Fred?" she said; "and how came you home in that?" looking at the carriage. "Miss Adams sent us," said Maggie, "and the boys are coming with her." "And she didn't let him fall in, mamma," said Bessie, "and she is all wet. But she only laughed. She's been talking to me, and I was sorry for her, a...
"Yes, ma'am, Miss Adams," said nurse, giving baby to her mother, "and surely I think she's turned over a new leaf. She's been talking to Bessie as tame as a lamb, and making friends with her, and that after me giving her a piece of my mind. And she saved that boy there (oh, you naughty fellow!) from drowning; for what ...
"But you are heated with your run," said Mrs. Bradford, "come in and have some dry clothes. You will be drenched in this pouring rain, and will take cold." "No fear," said Miss Adams, laughing. "The second wetting will do me no harm; nothing ever hurts me. Good-by. Good-by, dear little Bessie." She stooped to kiss her,...
"Ah, Harry," said his mother. "There is some good in every one, if we only knew how to find it." XXI. _THE COLONEL IN TROUBLE._ "Bessie," said Harry, as the children were at their supper, and he saw his little sister sitting with her spoon in her hand and her eyes fixed on the table as if she had forgotten the bread an...
"Of Miss Adams," said the little girl. "Nurse said she was talking to you ever so long," said Fred; "what was she saying?" "I don't think she meant me to talk about it," said Bessie; "she didn't want nurse to hear, and so I shall only tell mamma and Maggie. You know I must tell mamma everything, and I couldn't help tel...
"No snip about it!" said Maggie; "and if I was everybody, I'd tell Bessie every one of my secrets." "That's right, Maggie. You always stand up for Bessie and fight her battles; don't you?" "But, Bessie," said Harry, "did Miss Adams tell you you mustn't repeat what she said?" "No," said Bessie.
"Then there's no harm in telling." "Oh, Harry!" said Fred. "If Bessie knows Miss Adams don't want her to talk about it, she ought not to tell any more than if she had promised; ought she, father?" "Certainly not," said Mr. Bradford; "it would be unkind as well as dishonorable." "Yes," said Maggie; "it is not to do to o...
"Exactly, little woman," said her father, "and remember, dear children, that is a very safe rule to be guided by, when we do not feel sure whether a thing is fair or not." "Bessie," said Fred, "tell us what ails the colonel. I suppose you know, for all the grown-uppers seem to be telling you their secrets." "Why, that'...
"Fred," said Bessie, giving him a reproving look, "you're not polite at all to talk that way about my soldier. He's not a fellow, only boys are fellows, and he's a big gentleman. And he's not that other thing you called him,--I sha'n't say it, because it is a very ugly word." "And it's saucy to say it about the colonel...
"He didn't, mother," said Harry,--"at least, not in a way you would think wrong. The colonel was dreadfully dull and out of sorts the other day, though he declared that nothing ailed him, and seemed quite provoked that we should ask, though any one could see with half an eye that something was the matter. Starr was han...
"No, but I guess she, too, thinks there's something wrong with him, for the doctor told her she must not let anything worry him, and she did not say a word. And when he went, and she turned to go back to her room, her face was so very sad." "She's just the sweetest little woman that ever was made," said Fred, who was a...
"Papa," she said, as he lifted her, "do you think my soldier has a trouble in his mind?" "I think he has." "Wont you help him, papa?" said Bessie, who, like most little children, thought her father able to help and comfort every one. "I could only show him where he could find help, my darling, and I do not think he car...
"Then is there no one that can help him, papa?" "Yes, there is One who can give him all the help he needs." "You mean the One who lives up there?" said Bessie, pointing to the sky. "Yes. Will my Bessie pray that her friend may receive all the help he needs from that great merciful Father?"
"Oh, yes, papa, and you'll ask him, and my soldier will ask him, and he'll be sure to listen; wont he?" Mr. Bradford did not tell his little girl that the colonel would not ask such aid for himself; he only kissed her and carried her in. Bessie did not forget her friend that night when she said her evening prayers. Mag...
"Trouble me!" he repeated. "What should trouble me?" "I don't know," she answered; "but I thought maybe something did." "What have I to trouble me?" he again asked, carelessly. "Have I not the dearest little wife and two of the dearest little friends in the world, as well as pretty much everything else a reasonable man...
"If I could," she answered; "but I couldn't do very much, I'm too little. But we know who can help us; don't we? and we can tell Him. Mamma has a book named 'Go and tell Jesus.' Aint that a pretty name? I asked her to read it to me, and she said I couldn't understand it now. When I am older, she will; but I can underst...
Then Bessie told how Miss Adams' presence of mind had saved Franky from falling into the stream, "And then we talked a little," she said, "and I told her I was sorry I had been saucy, and kissed her, and so we are all made up." "That was the way; was it?" said the colonel. "I do not think you were the one to ask pardon...
"I don't think she meant me to talk about it, 'cause she didn't want nurse to hear." "Then I wont ask you, honorable little woman." "And she sent us home in the pony-carriage when the rain was coming, and ran all the way to our house herself, and mamma was very much obliged to her," said Maggie. "Well," said the colone...
"Did she take cold?" asked Maggie. "Mamma said she would, but she said nothing ever hurt her." "Something has hurt her this time. They say she was really ill when she went away this morning, and some of the ladies tried to persuade her to wait until she was better. But go she would, and go she did. Here comes Mrs. Rush...
Sometime after this, about Christmas time, came a letter and a little parcel to Bessie. The letter said,-- "MY DEAR LITTLE BESSIE,-- "Tell your mother I scorned her advice the day we were caught in the rain, and paid well for my folly, for I was very ill; but there was a good, kind doctor, who came and cured me, and no...
The little parcel contained a very beautiful and expensive bracelet with a clasp which made it smaller or larger, according to the size of the arm of the wearer. But Mrs. Bradford did not think it a suitable thing for her little girl, and she told Bessie she should put it away till she was grown up. "I sha'n't wear it ...
_THE BROKEN NOSE._ "There comes mamma with Mamie Stone," said Maggie, as they were going back to the hotel with Colonel and Mrs. Rush. When Mamie saw the little girls, she ran to meet them, saying she was going home to spend the morning with them; and Mrs. Bradford took them all back with her. While Maggie and Bessie s...
"Yes," he said, in answer to something Mrs. Bradford said to him, "I am glad of it; it is the best thing in the world for Mamie." "What is it, papa?" said Mamie, springing forward; "have you got something for me?" "Yes," he answered. "Will you come home and see it?" "What is it,--a new toy?"

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