8 LITTLE SUS AI? stand, it then went to the porringer and drank the rest of Susan’s breakfast; you may be sure she did not grudge it. Susan now went to her mother, and told all that had happened, and showed her the little lamb. Her mother said she might put it upon the grass-plot behind the cottage. The little girl did so, and before night it was quite well again. Susan had to go every day to work, but you may be sure she did not neglect her little lamb; every morning when she had her own breakfast, she went and fed it very carefully; and the lamb was always ready to come as soon as it heard her little mistress call. Do not you think Susan felt very happy. when she looked at the little lamb ? She had been kind to it, and felt much more pleased than if she had not taken any care about it. I have known little boys, and girls too, who have taken pleasure in teazing poor animals, but I have always remarked that they were bad children. Those who can take pleasure in killing flies, or hurting dumb creatures, would delight in tormenting their brothers and sisters, or companions, if they dared to do so; and when they grow up to be men and womfen, unless their evil habits are broken off, they will prove to be wicked people. Our
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