The Big Brother

It was a Wy nmn,:i big bro&er pf U-lKMll ffr nnü UlV.lf )i:ipr: ViK' )[h'■■ d;iy 1ha(: beiñg ;v.' ;rr;ih-í ■)M he (.lu.-i'ht and sa,vect f rom. drowuing; Jiis litt'lc sdstar, te'd two, w'lio had fallen i uto t'he bno'O'k where botht, ware j)j:i' Ju--. But smiall and yiooung as lie was, to tihU h"avo wed mfcun had oomio t'he bniow'jodige of a, big x": 's duty, tlhe duty of pirotoctiing n,nd t'ho ehiM who wasi letss cxperieinccd t'ha,n hümsejf. Oue of tüie niiost beaiuúul iv-la tüo'na ia tibie woild Is' t'ñat of the brotlier, the txae to wliom the youmgor onsa torn hi omier.-gienc.ifts, t'he oae on Whom he imothor a,nd fat her jaan as they feel the bardea of yaars, t'he one who beoomes in a seaae, aftar t'he father, ihe head of the lMujse. Ohtdrea eaiiy laara, to adiop.fc the nanners and the speech; of the eider b:-'0ther ; the sraaia Uoy is odiueated by the one who is a,ö bo.;n'ege or in LiifeJuiess nnuoh uiorei thaji hy his gjOTorness or h.is ,tintior; glad' a ,-wtee CtearreJ once : "It yiou-cia,a get yow eMiesrt son well s-,tia,rted, If he is mtrn.i's, truthful, iifid of lúgh principies, ofhcrs in the ia;ni;y follow right on in tiio si in ilirtwfifon; The jadi clous fa.ther wtl ,talce [?reat paitas irh hls o'jdüst' boyj" In a. ïieis'hlii.ji'lKiotU or a schooü tlie L&jge boya i-ncial opimipn and set t'he iashionfor the rest. A",wajs thw'e is som; I'arger bi3,y wiiora tlu Iittie lad gvëatly adimi3nea, wtua la liis iHiil,'':. rnile or wbbee Mown makkes or uianuakes ala happiness. The Mg I.' ithar oes jwt ir, bat ha Is Va, thts chajigeiul woild the ome personage Wh-ose scep-. tro ncver t'otteTB, Ts-hose jvopuiïarlty never Avanes, and who liever goos out of fasïii-on.. To his sisters he lias the opportmei'Ity of süioVing clii'valry, kin.dnoss and the diöferenice of the pfcronger tol the waakesr. To the 1ab}r of -the hotuaehoKl he is little (short of a fcitag. The big brother, b:ss, his heart, when he is a nice, oKlging, affectiona.te and generoue fcllow, is as impoirtaiit a mcm'ber of society; as any oiae' -vlio eau )e mentioned. If. as somiethnes happens, Jie is edtlier a bnCJyi or a toward, thoa lie is naocc c.o'ntemptiflbïie tihiam lúe would be if he had baea !j:-a In a iess-fortur fliate order ia tlue TarntCy, fo'r te ha-;, so td spealk. bpokeai ftaiiöh witih a,"J