CHAPTER I
LITTLE SUSY'S LITTLE SERVANTS.
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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 gave her somany 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 your mamma 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.
They did 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 kept them shut up most of the time, so that nobody could see them.
When her aunts and cousins came to see Susy, they would say: "1 should think
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she might let wssee them!" and would go away quite disappointed.
These black servants were bright little things, and they soon learned to amuse Susy a great deal.
One of the first things they did for her was to let her see the fire; and that she thought very beautiful.
Susy had another pair of twins for her servants, who knew so little what they were for that they used to slap and scratch her face.
Her mamma said she should have to tie them up if they did so.
Indeed, many a little baby has had them all covered up with white rags, to keep them from doing mischief before they were old enough to know better.
But though they did not know how to behave, they were very pretty, tiny little things, and when Susy's papa knelt down and took one of them on his hand and kissed it, and wondered at it, and said what a funny wee morsel it was, why, it looked, to be sure, like a pretty roseleaf, or anything else soft and pink you can think of.
Susy had another pair of twins that she took no notice of for some months.
They did not learn how to wait upon her so soon as some of
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the others did.
They were restless little fat things, seldom still a moment, and about all they knew was how to kick holes in blue and white socks.
Susy had still another pair of twins, not very pretty, but very useful, for without them she never could have heard her mamma sing, or her papa whistle ; or the shovel and tongs fall down and make such a charming noise; nor the pussycat say "mew!" nor the doggy say " bow-wow !"
She had one more little servant that she kept out of sight all the time.
All it was good for at first was to help her get a great many breakfasts and dinners and suppers every day.
But it became good for a great deal more after awhile.
But if I go on in this way I am afraid you will get puzzled, you are such a little creature.
Soif you will guess the names of these servants of Susy I will give you three guesses.
And if you do not guess right the third time you will have to peep into the glass, when you will see most of your own; I mean those I have been talking about.