The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-05-30
A SECOND TRIAL.
A SISTERS LOVE FOR HER BROTHER
SHE SAVES HIM DISGRACE BY
HER ENTREATIES.
1t was commencement at G..

INV tnc CnulCH DIS l. entered III
rather tardy. Finding the choice
seats in the center of the audience.
room already taken, l pressed for
ward, looking to the right and tC
the left for vacancy. On the
very front row of seats I,fOund one
Here a little girl moved along to
make room for me, looking into my
face with large gray eyes, whose
brightness vas softened by very
long lasbes. Her face was opeI,
and fresh as a newly blown rose
| before sunrise. Again and again
found my eyes turning to the
rose-like face, and each time the
gray eyes moved, halt smiling to
meet mine. Evidently the child
was ready to "make up" with me.
And when, with a bright smile, she
returned my dropped handkerchief,
and said "Thank youw we
seemed fairly introduced. Other
persons, now coming into the seat,
crowded me qnite close up against
the little girl, so that we soon felt
very we'll acquainted.
"There's going to be a great
crowd" she said to me.
"Yes," | replied; people al
ways like to see how school. l.bOys
are made into men,"
Her face beamed with pleasure
and pride as she said: ..
My brothers going to graduate;
he's going to speak Pve brought
these flowers to throw to him."
They were not greenhouse favo-
rites; just old-tashioned domestic
flowers, such as we associate with
the dear grandmothers . but" |
thOnght, "they will seem sweet
and beautiful to him for little sis
ter,s sake"
"That is my BROTHER" she went
on, pointing with her nosegay.
"The one with the light hair ?" |
asked.
"Oh no." she said, smiling and
shaking her head in innocent re-
proof; "not that bonlely one, with
red-hair; that handsome one with
brown, wavy hair. His eyes look
brown, too; but they are not-thcy
are dark blue. There! he's got his
hand up to his head now. You see
him, don't you7"
In an eager way she looked from
me to him, and from him to me, as
if some important fate depended
upon my identifying her brother.
II see him." | said. {" He's
very good-looking brother"
" Yes, he is beautiful" she said,
with artless delight; sand he's so
good, and he studies SO hard. He
has taken care of me ever since
mamma died. Here is his name on
the programme. He is not the
valedictorian, but he has an honor,
for all that.
saw in the little creatures ia.
miliarity with these technical col
lege terms that she had closely
identified herself with her brothers
studies, hopes and successes.
"He thought, at first," she con-
tinued, "that he would write on
the Romance of Monastic Lite."
What a strange sound these long
words had, whispered from her
childish lips! Her interest in hor
brothers work had stamped them
on the child's memory, and to her
they were ordinary things. .a
"But them" she went on, "he
decided that he would rather write |
Oh Historical Parallels" and he's
got a real good Oration, he says
it beautifully. He has said it to
me a great many times. l I'mOst |
know it by heart. Oh! it begins
80 pretty and so grand. This is
the way it begins" she added, en-.
uouraged by the interest she must
have seen in my face. ".Amid the
and combinations of
the actors and the forces which
make up the great Kaleidoscope of
history, we often find that a turn of !
hand" q ...
"Why, bless the babyp
thought, looking down into her
bright, proud face. can't describe
low very odd and elfish it did seem
20 have those sOnOrOus words roll
ng out of the smiling infantile
mouth. 1 rra .Fr.
The band, shrinking up, put an
md to the quotation and to the
.s.
AS the exercises progressed, and
nearer and nearer the
fort on which all her interest was
concentrated, my little friend be-
,ame excited and restless. Her
yes grew larger and brighter, two
ieep, red spots glowed on her
,heeks. She touched up the flow
RS, manifestly making the offering
eady for the shrine.
"Now, it's his turn, she said,
urning to me face in which pride
md delight and anxiety seemed
bout equally mingled. But when
he overture was played through
nd his name was called the child
eemed in her eagerness to forget
ne aud all the earth beside him.
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