THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS. vas)

Rose. Rose would break her strings, or lose her
buttons, or leave holes in her gloves, till reproved
by her mama for untidiness: but Susan never for-
got that “a stitch in time saves nine,” and the
stitch was never wanting.

She used to go to school for some hours every
day: and I should have liked to go with her, and
help her in her studies, especially when I found
that she was learning the multiplication-table, and
I remembered how useful I had been to Rose in
that very lesson; but dolls were not allowed at
school, and I was obliged to wait patiently for
Susan’s company till she had finished all her busi-
ness, both at school and at home.

She had so little time to bestow upon me, that
at first I began to fear that I should be of no use to
her. The suspicion was terrible; for the wish to be
useful has been the great idea of my life. It was
my earliest hope, and it will be my latest pleasure.
I could be happy under almost any change of cir-
cumstances; but as long’ as a splinter of me re-
mains, I should never be able to reconcile myself
to the degradation of thinking that I had been of
NO Use.

But I soon found I was in no danger of what I
so much dreaded. In fact, I seemed likely to be
even more useful to Susan than to Rose. Before I