Both teacher and pupil have shown a great deal of patience and perseverance." These words from her beloved mother were most precious to Prudy.

Dotty, though she did not know what was meant by patience and perseverance, presumed it was something fine, and laughed and danced in great glee.
Nothing remarkable happened during the visit to Florence Eastman, except that Miss Dimple and Johnny were found running off the track of the upper railroad just one second after the engine started.

Everybody was very much frightened when it was all safely over.

But Dotty said,-- "O, my suz! Me an' Johnny has done that a hundred and a million times--hasn't we, Johnny?
We wait till the injin w'istles, then we run on to the platform--don't we, Johnny ?" It came out after a while, that these reckless children had also been in the habit of crossing pins on the track, to make "scissors," the weight of the cars pressing the two pins into a solid _x_.
"I still tremble," said Mrs.Eastman, with white lips.

"This Alice Parlin is the most daring little creature I ever saw, more harum-scarum than ever Susy was." Prudy was Mrs.Eastman's pet.