CHAPTER IV
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CHAPTER IV.
Berrore Susy was old enough to understand what Mr. Ought said to her, he used to tell her mamma what she should do for her baby, and she would mind him directly.
But as soon as Susy was able to listen herself to what he said, he came and lived in the nursery, and when she went to walk he went with her, and when she played he was near her.
He never went to sleep, but was always wide awake; and you could not touch him with your little finger, no matter how softly, but he would start up to see what you meant.
One day when Susy was tired of playing with her tuys she began to look about the room for something new.
'There was an inkstand on the table, an. she thought she would stand on tiptoe and get it. But her mamma saw what she was doing, and she said: " No, Susy, no! you must not touch my inkstand."
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Susy stopped a moment.
"Don't touch it," said Mr. Ought.
"T want it," said Susy.
"I want it vely much."
She put her hand upon it again and looked at her mamma to see what she would do.
But her mamma could not do anything.
She was lying sick in bed.
"Ts my little Susy going to mind me?" said she.
Susy looked down and did not answer.
But her little fingers were on the inkstand.
"Oh! don't be naughty, Susy," said Mr.
Ought.
Then Susy looked up and smiled, and ran away from the table.
She felt very happy because she had been obedient.
Miss Joy took hold of her hands and began to dance, and Mrs.
Love kissed her, and said : " Dear Susy ! precious little Susy!" a good many times.
Do you know who was lying in the bed with her mamma?
It was Robbie, Susy's little baby brother.
Two or three days after that Susy did not feel well, so she thought she should like to sit in her mamma's lap and hear
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her sing.
But there was Robbie lying upon it, taking up all the room.
So she went up to him and pulled him by the frock, and said:
"Get down, boy."
"Fe can't get down," said her mamma.
"He is too little."
Then Susy was angry and she said to Robbie:
"Go away, boy.
Let Susy come up."
And she lifted her hand, and was just going tostrike her little brother.
But just then Mr. Ought said in quite a stern voice: " Susy /"
Then Susy stopped and listened.
Herangry, red face began to grow pleasant; she sat down on the rug at her mamma's feet, and did not say another word.
She had some teeth coming, and they made her feel almost sick, and always before this if she did not feel well she could sit in her mamma's lap and find comfort.
While she was sitting on the floor her mamma felt sorry for her, and longed to take her in her arms and kiss and soothe her.
But now dear, good old Aunt Patience came and sat down on the rug by Susy's side, and she took her little tired head right into her own kind bosom,
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wiped away all the tears, and said: " Never mind!
By and by Robbie will go to sleep, and then it will be Susy's turn."
And Susy looked up into her mamma's anxious face and said in a soft, sweet voice:
"Never mind, mamma!"