The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-30

My Oldest brother Nicholas was sis
years older than /. He was, therefore,
ten or eleven years OLD when ! va. %as
four or five. and when ne offered to take
us to Fanfaron Mountain.
Of addressing him with thou" but 1t
is fact that while we were boys we
always used the moro respectful form
of .iyeu." He was very remarkable
boy, and grew up to be q most re-
markab BILE man.
Turgenieff once said about him. HE
only lacks the necessary faults to pc
come a great writer"
He really showed no signs OF these n :,
bilious. and he did not care the least
what others thought Of him; but he
had all the virtues Of great writer
an unusually fine artistic sense, an eX-
5cellent humor, unusual powers of OBJ
Eservation. and exuberant Imagination,
which was quite inexhaustible. and an
absolute just and moral conception OF
the world.
he could for hours tell ghost stories q
la Radcliffe or humorous stories in q
manner so convincing that you We're
bound to think 1t had all really hap
pened to him.
When he was not telling stories or
reGding. and he read great deal, he
was usually drawing devils With horns
and corkscrew mustaches, in all kinds
Of positions. and all his drawings were were
full of Imagination and humor.
One day he SAID to me. who was Ave.
to Militia who was six years old, and
to Sergius, who was seven, that he
knew the art of how to make every
Nov We shall no longer have sick
ness or sorrow" he said, nobody shall
be angry with anybody people Will
l5all love one another ,and all the people
"a the world will be brethren Ike the
ants"
Evidently my brother had heard of
the SMoravian brethren. and had mixed
1 the Russian word "morave" up with
snoravei," which means ant.
remember aSlse p 1eM Ss
\ because it made US think Of the great
anthills we had seen in the woods. w g
4 even invented game ant brethren.
We sat down On booss 9naer
and nd squeezed tightly together IN he
The ant-brethren" was revealed to
3us by my brother Nicholas for the
sfopping ali quarrels. I was, he as
sured 'us. Inscribed upon green stick.
which was hidden near the highway.
l3on the edge of the precilpice, at place
wnere i want to pc buried when ]
9t my @ys
terions stick, my brother knew all
j hoilt the mountain Fanfaron,S to which
La promised to take US II we would
fulfil the following condlllons:
First, to sit down In q dark corner
4 OF "a room and not think Of polar bears.
Il remember how often 8 I, sat e, g own3Ill,
a corner and tried not t.. thins8 81 polar ole;
4 bears and never succeeded The
second condition was o8walk along q
i tcrn AZ between two boards In the floor
/ Without losing your balance, and the
I5thlrd and easiest condition was to live
i q Whole year without eating or even
hooking at roast hare.
Nicholas assured US that w hen we
had FULFILLED these and g other more dif;
i liz about later. the first Wish We would
i make would come true. y,
4 Each one of us was to m ak q wish
II Saretus wished to know how to model
\ horses and chickens In wax. Militia
4 wished 10 become a great painter. and
II II a myself. could atEtirst find no wish
n but finally wished that&1 might become
A q great miniature portrait ainter.
As children usual " do we la ter for-
got all about this and none sot Sus ever
climbed THE mountain Of Fanfaron,
But wha at I shall neversforg get is the all
Of portance ,nad \,
s. Z respect which these miracles called
IlnSr Il \ ~ our mir i'd 81 fSHs sS IA
Satrhe I,ant- ethren," the mysterloul
rrear slick destined to ma ke al u mer
n happy. n have #exerted great intlusncs
uppn me, ~; ~ ", \, y, i, 4, y !. l. !.
l somebody speal ofS W. go mas ns, q
| stheir desire to work go the happi.
ness sof man nc, ~ ana 81 th s.
tesiousSrltes. whe ~ q new mo q;