CHAPTER

I. KEEPING SECRETS
II. BEFORE DAYLIGHT
III. SUSY'S CHRISTMAS
IV. SUSY'S WINGS
V. PRUDY'S TROUBLE
VI. ROSY FRANCES EASTMAN MARY
VII. LITTLE TROUBLES
VIII. ANNIE LOVEJOY
IX. MORAL COURAGE
X. RUTHIE TURNER
XI. SUSY'S BIRTHDAY
XII. FAREWELL





PREFACE.


Here is a story about the oldest of the three little Parlin girls,
"sister Susy;" though so many things are always happening to Prudy that
it is not possible to keep her out of the book.

I hope my dear little friends will see how kind it was in God to send
the "slow winter" and the long nights of pain to little Prudy.

If trouble should come to us, let us grow gentle, and patient, and