The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-03-23
Number 9s.
4 Model stst.r

N'"N '""i"' aHu 'un over "Malu oil Lango-
lem" a. least fifty times before he caught the
right air.
1t was she who was the confdant Of all his
boyish loves, and wrote his FIRST attempts at
love letters, and curled his hair when he VIM
ted to be "yory smart.n
1t was she who always ran and opened IN
door for him when it was raining, aud BROUGHT
whatever he wanted out Of his bed room. and
always had ''some silTerb when he was going
out, and was positive ''she could spare it.D
These loans occurred pretty often, and yet did
she ever allude to them, or get tired offending?
Brothers have short memorica--but Won know
I was a fact.
u papa was angry at your being out so
Iate," wasn't she in The passage to warn YOU,
and to osk you show could you be 30 foolish! 2,
II she was fearful Of a disturbance didn't she
walt outside, and rush in, and, with her arms
round her tather's neck, beg Of him not 10
speak 50 harsh to you?" Ifshe knew you had
no dinner, the cloth always laid for you
IN a pfiHate roon, whilst, by some means, she
got you a glass of wine, and came in and out
to see If there was anything YOU wanted?
Again, il you had been scout" aud complain
ed OF being hungry, didn't she steal down
stairs, and when they were oil in bed, smurRle
a tray of cold meat into your room, and never
forgot the pickles! Aud if any harsh voice
called out loudly, "Who's that up stairs?n I
didn't she put her hand over your mouth, sits
only I papa"
Besides, who in illness nurscd you? Who
was it that brought you up your tea, and gave
you your medicine, and would tempt you with
delicate puddings, saga and "such nice water
gruel,' and would sit up with you all night.
ana 6atac your temples and kiss you, and be
on her feet if you only turned, and ask you a
thousand lines il you felt better, and half cry.
ing call you 'dear brother -words you know
that never sound SO touching, as in sick
room. More than this, have you not a recollec-
non when you were very, very i'll, waking up
2 and tnding her kneeling at your bedside!
You have felt thls--and you have loved her
/ wiih all your soul, though perhaps you were
too weak at the time TO say il. She was al.
ways kind--always repaying a brOthe-'s rough.
c noea with a sisters gentlenCss--and thinking
I herself more than rev arded if YOU only walk
ed out with her, orspared an evening not more
than once in a year, TO take her to the concert
Ito" grateful she was, if you read to her Of d
evening whilst she was w~Orking-knittine
probably, a beautiful steel purse, the destins
ton of wlHich was only learnt on your mex.
birthday! You have not forgotten either, her
coming to see you at school, and bringing yon
large bags OF ginger. bread and oranges and a
pIumcake made with her own hands: and her
walking with you, hand in hand, roun nd the
play ground, or through the neighboring fields,
making you all the while display, by her af-
:ectlonate questions, your wonderful store of
half years learning, while mamma listened
and admired by your happy side? Who was 1t
5 too, that attended to your linen both when YOU
were a boy, 9nd when you were at that neu-
d trail age, vibrating between manhood and
childhood, which is called no one can tell
why)hobbledeboyhood and when ask Cd, repla-
ced all stray buttons Sewed missing strings on TO
your collars, hcmmod your ~scarfs, was The first
. to teach you the dificultart oftying your neck
g handkerchief, trimmed your nails, packed your
box when you were going anywhere, and even
' accompanied you, taking courage from your
2 own cOwardice, to the dentists! Who was the
: companion Of all your romps, and used to pull
your sproutiug whiskers, and make you quiz
a zical presents Of BEARS grease, and bring you
l home all the fine things she had heard the
9 young ladies' say about the "darling brother''
WhooVor tooa such pains 10 make that "darllng
brother smarter admired him MORE and danced
e with him when she wouldn't dance with anv
bOdg else? And when there was little disa-
preonent at home, and you were hiding in a
garrett, nursing your. pride, which had been
Q hurt by some harsh word, or trying to cnre
youryoung mans dignity that had been sadly
S wounded by an angry blow, who came to see
you %oftener, bringing you al%ays'a few things
I that mother had put up for YOU" and by her
0 kindness, gradually led you home, where she
5 knew too well your father was only waiting to
: receive you with open arms? You we're angry
c at the time with the a%rtifce, but Boon lost
your anger in the depths of your affection, and
the. quick JOY of the reconciliation. Who
] did all this! You must romembsF-if ever
you had childhood-your heart tells you il
was your sister. If not sensible, then, Of all
the love which was being daily forced with
such miLlness on you, you must feel il now,
and will turn back with me, and in your BROTH
Is ers heart. Try TO thank, as now thank, with
a life's pent up era titude, that Model Sister
Punch.
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