CHAPTER IX
LILELE SUSY'S SIX TEACIIERS.
CHAPTER IX.
Wutte Susy was sick her mamma and Mrs.
Love and Aunt Patience never left her.
They were all the time doing something to comfort her.
But now she was getting well fast, and felt very weak and tired, and Mrs. Patience often went away, and then Susy would cry and fret, and make her mamma take her up and lay her down, and carry her about all day long.
She would not let her go out of her sight without crying.
Now you must not blame her for this.
You must remember how feeble she was, and how sick she had been; and don't you know how you behaved when you had the measles ?
One morning Susy's mamma put a pillow in a low chair, and took her up and dressed her in a pink dressing-gown that she had made on purpose for her to wear when she was sick.
Then she combed her hair.
Most of it had been cut off when Susy was sick, and what little was left
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was all matted together.
Then she placed the small table that Susy had for her last birthday present in front of the chair, and on the table she put a cup and saucer, a plate, a teapot, a cream-pitcher, and a sugar-bowl.
These had just been brought to Susy by a kind friend who did not know she had been sick.
Susy looked at her mamma as she moved about getting her breakfast ready, but did not say a word.
She could not talk half so much now as she could before the fever left her, for she was very weak.
At last her mamma said: "Susy, why don't you ask me where this pretty teaset came from ?"
"TJ don't know," said Susy faintly.
"Oh! you are too tired to talk, darling.
Mamma did not know how weak you were.
You shall have your breakfast; then you will feel better."
So some nice soft toast was brought in, and Susy ate a large slice and then another smal? slice, and drank two cups of milk and water
By that time she was so refreshed that she be-
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gan to admire her new cups and saucers, and she wanted Robbie to come in and see them.
Robbie came in with Susy's great doll in his arms.
Susy seemed glad to see her doll once more, and in the course of the day she played a little with it.
So the next day her mamma said to her:
"Now, my dear little Susy, I want you to spare mamma a little while.
I want to go and see Mrs. Wilson, whose baby is very sick. You can have dolly get into bed with you.
I won't be gone long."
On hearing this Susy began to ery.
" Susy, dear, if you were very sick and going to die don't you think Mrs. Wilson would come to see me ?"
"Would it comfort you if she came?"
"Yes, it would.
And I want to go and comfort her, because pretty soon she won't have any little baby."
"Let your mamma go, Susy, like a good girl," said Mrs. Love.
"I'll stay with you while she is gone."
"Yes," said Mr. Ought, "let her go."
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"Do go, dear mamma," said Susy.
"I know you won't be gone long from your sick child !"
Her mamma smiled, and Mr. Ought said to her: "Susy, you and I are getting to be very good friends.
One of these days, if you have a little Susy of your own, I will be her friend too, and will help her to be a comfort to you."
Susy smiled and began to think so hard about having a little Susy of her own that she was surprised when her mamma came back to see her so soon.
"Did you see the little baby, mamma ?"
"Yes, I saw it.
It is very sick.
It is going to die."
"When it is dead will they bury it in the ground ?"
"Yes, darling."
" And then will they go home and leave it all alone ?"
"Susy, I once read a very sweet sentence about that.
I will repeat it to you.
'It is not we that go home and leave our friends behind ; no, it is they that are gone to the better home
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and left us behind.'
That dear little baby will get home before its mamma."
"Home to heaven," said the angel Faith, drawing nigh.
"YT should think it would be pretty glad when it got there," said Susy.
"I suppose it would be looking round to see if Mr. Pain had got to heaven too.
And when it found he hadn't it would be pretty glad."