[CHAPTER I.]	ANNIE’S PLAN.
[CHAPTER II.]	ANNORAH’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE SICK-ROOM.
[CHAPTER III.]	ANNORAH LEARNS TO READ.
[CHAPTER IV.]	THE PRIEST MEETS ANNORAH AT HER MOTHER’S COTTAGE.
[CHAPTER V.]	PHELIM BRINGS BAD TIDINGS TO ANNORAH.
[CHAPTER VI.]	THE CONFESSIONAL—AN IRISH FROLIC.
[CHAPTER VII.]	BIDDY DILLON BECOMES A “HERETIC.”
[CHAPTER VIII.]	ANNIE’S DEATH—ANNORAH’S PROSPECTS.

LIVE TO BE USEFUL.

CHAPTER I.

ANNIE’S PLAN.

Annie Lee was a cripple. Until her eighth summer she had been strong and well, like most other children; but then disease began to appear, and although she had skilful doctors and kind nurses, it was soon too plain that she was never to be well again.

Five years of pain and weakness had been her portion at the time our story commences. So accustomed had she become to her sad situation, that it seemed like a delusive dream when she remembered the sportive hours of her earlier childhood. Like other sick children, she was far more thoughtful than was quite natural at her age, and very seldom in her easiest moments laughed aloud. But she was not an unhappy child.

As soon as she was old enough to understand that she had a sinful heart and needed salvation, she had earnestly sought the Saviour of sinners, and had been graciously received by him, and made a lamb of his flock. In the school of Christ she learned to bear pain without murmuring, and to submit with cheerfulness to her lot in life. Instead of requiring comfort from her parents, who seemed to realize her misfortune more fully than she did herself, she became their consoler, and rarely failed in her efforts to lighten their sorrow on her account.

“It might have been so much worse, mamma,” she said one day, when Mrs. Lee was lamenting her condition. “Only think of poor lame Phelim, Biddy Dillon’s little boy.”