LITTLE SUSY'S
LITTLE SERVANTS.
BY MRS. E. PRENTISS,
AUTHOR OF "LITTLE SUSY'S SIX TEACHERS," "SIX BIRTHDAYS," "THE FLOWER OFTHE FAMILY," ETC., ETC.
FIRST SERIES.
NEW YORK:
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY,
38 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET.
COPYRIGHT, 1856 AND 1883,BYAnson D. F. Randolph & Company.
CONTENTS
First Series
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
Second Series
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
LITTLE SUSY'S LITTLE SERVANTS.
CHAPTER I.
As Little Susy had a kind mamma to take care of her, you will, perhaps,wonder why God gave her also, a great many servants of her own. He gaveher so many, that you might spend your whole life in reading about them.But I shall tell you of only a very few, and then you can ask yourmamma to talk to you about the others. For the little servants Susy had,you have, too.
At first she did not know what they were for, or where they were. Theydid not know, either, and so they were useless. Two of them were black,and so much alike that you could not tell one from the other. Susy keptthem shut up most of the time, so that nobody could see them. When heraunts and cousins came to see Susy, they would say: "I should think shemight let us see them!" and would go away quite disappointed. Theseblack servants were bright little things, and they soon learned to amuseSusy a great deal. One of the first things they did for her was to lether see the fire; and that she thought very beautiful.
Susy had another pair of twins for her servants, who knew so littlewhat they were for, that they used to slap and scratch her face. Hermamma said she should have to tie them up if they did so. Indeed, many alittle baby has had them all covered up with white rags, to keep themfrom doing mischief before they were old enough to know better. Butthough they did not know how to behave, they were very pretty, tinylittle things, and when Susy's papa knelt down and took one of them onhis hand, and kissed it, and wondered at it, and said what a funny w