I taught her how to skate when she was a mere baby.

I often said she was all the brother I had in the world! She can remember now how I used to wrap her in shawls, and prop her up on the woodpile, while I chopped wood." "And how you hired her to drop ears of corn for you into the corn-sheller; and how, one day, her fingers were so benumbed, that one of them was clipped off before she knew it!" "Well, so it was, that is true; but only the tip of it.

Active children will meet with accidents.

She was a regular little fly-away, and would sooner climb a tree or a ladder any time, than walk on solid ground.
_Now_ look at her!" And Mr.Parlin repeated the words, "Now look at her," as if he was sure his wife must confess that she was a remarkable person.
Mrs.Parlin said, if Susy should ever become half as excellent and charming as Miss Margaret Parlin, she should be perfectly satisfied, for her part.
Thus Susy was allowed to romp to her heart's content; "fairly ran wild," as aunt Eastman declared, with a frown of disapproval.

She gathered wild roses, and wore them in her cheeks, the very best place in the world for roses.