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LITTLE PRUDY'S
SISTER SUSY
By
SOPHIE MAY
New York
Hurst & Company
Publishers
TO MY
LITTLE NIECE
Katie Clarke
THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU, KATIE,
WITH THE LOVE OF YOUR AUNTIE.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
Here is a story about the oldest ofthe three little Parlin girls, "sisterSusy;" though so many things arealways happening to Prudy that it isnot possible to keep her out of thebook.
I hope my dear little friends willsee how kind it was in God to send the"slow winter" and the long nights ofpain to little Prudy.
If trouble should come to us, let usgrow gentle, and patient, and lovely.
Little friends, be sure of one thing—ourdear Father in heaven sends ussomething hard to bear only becausehe loves us.
CHAPTER I.
KEEPING SECRETS.
We might begin this story of SusyParlin on a New Year's day, only it isso hard to skip over Christm