ays, weeks, and months of pain and sickness. As
peevish, fretful tempers often bring disease on the body, so a patient,
even temper not only lessens all suffering, but helps to cure the
diseases of the body; Miss Emma, therefore, will perhaps in a short time
regain her health, and should such an event happen, what joy it will
give to all who know, pity, and admire this excellent little girl!

GENEROUS SUSAN thinks all day long how she can add to the happiness of
others. It is her greatest pleasure to relieve distress, to do good, and
to promote the comforts of all around her. She watches the looks of her
parents, that she may fly to oblige them. If they are going out to ride
in the coach, and there is not room enough for all the children, she
will give up her place, that one of her brothers or sisters may go. She
will at all times leave play, or decline paying a visit, to attend on
Emma, her sick sister. She sits whole hours by her bed-side to watch her
while she sleeps, and is careful to stir neither hand or foot, lest she
should disturb her slumbers. When awake, she reads to her, talks to her,
or sings to her, if that seems most to amuse her. She would gladly bear
the pain herself, if it were possible so to relieve poor Emma.

When Susan has any money given to her, she does not treat herself with
sweetmeats or toys, but buys something that will be useful to her
brothers or sisters. At other times she will buy a pair of shoes for a
poor child that goes bare-footed, or purchase a book for some little boy
or girl to learn to read in. Her mamma often gives her old frocks and
gowns to bestow on some distressed family, and then Susan works with all
her might for several days, to mend and make them up in the most useful
manner: for she has been told that a poor woman who has two or three
children to take care of, and goes out to daily labour, has not time to
work with her needle, and perhaps does not know how to do it properly.
When Susan has mended or made three or four little frocks, and sees the
children neatly dressed in them, she feels more delight and pleasure than
if she had twenty dolls of her own, clothed in silks and satins. Generous
Susan has the blessing of the poor and the love of all her family.

MERRY AGNES, the youngest child of the whole, is a fine, healthy,
lively, sprightly, laughing little girl, who feels no pain, and has no
cause for sorrow. She is a kind of plaything for her elder brothers and
sisters,