CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER III.
Bur when Susy began to run about, and could reach up to the table where her mamma's workbasket stood, somebody beside kind Mrs.
Love and laughing Miss Joy had to come and teach her.
For there were scissors in the basket, and pins and needles, and Susy made up her mind that she would play with them.
Every day when she put up her hand to take the basket, her mamma would shake her head, and say: "No, no!" And Susy would then begin to cry, and after a minute or two would snatch the basket again.
One day her mamma was talking with another lady, and she did not see Susy when she put her hand out toward her basket. So Susy took it, and sat down upon the floor to have a good time with it.
She tangled all the spools of thread together, and unrolled all the tape.
She threw the buttons all over
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the floor.
She took a piece of ribbon that her mamma had bought to tie her little shirts with and put it round her neck.
She tossed the hooks and eyes into a corner, and let a ball of yarn roll under the table. For all this time she was trying to get at the needle-book, which lay at the bottom of the basket.
Just as she reached it her mamma looked down and said:
"No, no!"
Susy knew very well what that meant, but she held on to the needle-book until all ofa sudden Mr. Pain gave her such a prick that she let it drop. He had scratched her with one of the needles.
Susy gave a scream, and looked very angrily at the needle-book, which she had now learned not to touch.
But it was only a few days after this that she went to the fireplace and filled her clean white apron with coals and ashes.
Her mamma took them away from her, and shook her head, and said: "No, no!" again and again.
But as soon as Susy had another clean apron put on, she ran again to the fire and began to fill it with coals, and no matter how often her mamma said No, no! she would keep doing it over and over. Then Mrs,
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ial Love said to her mamma: "If we let Susy do so, some day she will get burned.
We ought to punish her, so that she will mind when she is spoken to."
"Yes, I think so, too," said her mamma.
So Mrs. Love called Mr. Pain and told him to slap Susy's little arms if she disobeyed again.
It was not long before he had to come; and as soon as she saw him, Miss Joy, who had been frolicking with Susy a whole year, and never before had been absent from her—poor Miss
Joy ran away and hid.
As soon as Susy felt the slaps on her arm she let the coals drop and began to cry.
She looked at her arm, which bore the red marks of Mr. Pain's hand, and pitied it very much.
But the slap did her good.
It taught ber to obey her mamma about the fire, and saved her from being burned up, as she certainly would have been if she had kept on playing with the coals.
Mr. Pain soon went away, and he had hardly turned his back when Miss Joy peeped out of the closet where she had been hiding, and made such a funny little face that Susy could not
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help laughing, and her face was both wet with tears and shining with smiles.
She kissed her mamma and put her arms around her neck, and her mamma kissed her and said: "Susy won't be naughty any more."
And Susy smiled and said: "No, no!"