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Show SHORT ON BROTHERLY LOVE Luckily William Had Grace Enough to Remember That Henry Was Sacred. William was not kind to his small brother Henry; in fact, he looked upon him as a nuisance, a scourge sent from heaven to try his spirit and spoil his fun. Especially that day was Henry a thorn in the older boy's flesh. In his efforts to rid himself of his burden, William resorted to all the methods the mind of youth suggested, but in vain. Henry continued to stick as close, if not closf, than a brother. "William," finally said the boy's father, who had witnessed, unheard, the final paroxysm of the unequal struggle, "you should be ashamed of yourself to treat your little brother in that way! He ought to be sacred to you." William made no reply; but shortly short-ly afterward, beljeving himself to be free of surveillance, he was heard to address Henry thus: "Always taggin' after me! If you weren't sacred I'd break your blamed face for you!" The Sunday Magazine. |