The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-26
SUSlE'S BRAVERY.


Her Presence of Mind.
One day Mrs. White was obliged to
leave homo in the morning and did not
expect to return until the evening. She
felt anxious about leaving her three
children alone, but it really could not
be helped. So she asked kind old
lady who lived next door to look in at
the children two or three times through
the day TO see that no harm came to
them.
The first time the old lady came in,
Susie, who was twelve years old. was
trying to put her two-year-old brother
to sleep; while eight-year-old Jennie
was amusing herself by tying short
pieces of string to her Kittens tail and
then watching her run round and round
trying to catch it. "Well," said the
lady, 81 am glad to see that you are
such good children, and ] hope that
you VIII avoid getting into mischief, at
least till your mamma returns"
But no sooner had the lady left when
Willie suddenly changed his mind
about going to sleep. He sat up in
Susie's lap and struggled to get on the
floor.
Susie let him do Us he wished, and
he soon joined in Jennie's sport with
the kitten.
Susie, thinking this the best time to
do the sweeping, took up the broom.
expecting to sweep the yard and pave
ment.
But suddenly she heard loud
scream, and upon reaching the room
Were she had left Jennie and Willie
she almost tainted. For there upon
the floor lay Willie, perfectly quiet.
pale as DEATH and the blood flowing
freely from q cut in the head.
Willie had only fallen from n chair.
but in his fall had struck his head
against some broken glass which was
lying on the floor, which caused Sc
we're cut in his head.
To say that Susie was alarmed would
hardly express what she felt, and at
first she did not know what to do. Her
first thought was to call out one OF tho
neighbors; her second was to run for
the doctor. But, had Susie acted upon
either Of these thoughts Willie would
haze been left alone with Jennie, who
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