Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — His Poor Brother. [ARTICLE]

His Poor Brother.

Youth’s Companion. A boy may be homesick enough to feel badly, and even to cry, and "yet not quite aick enough to lose his self-pos-session. Little Bennie was away from home for thefirst time in his life—away from his father, mother.sister and his twin brother. He was sleeping alone for the first time, also,and his little heart was heavy. The room was dark, the house was strange and'the mice in the wall made frightful noises. Bennie’s soSTwarfilled with apprehension, and after a while he lifted up his voice and wept sorely. “What is the matter, Bennief” called his aunt from an adjoining rooaw_> “The matter? 800-hoo! The matter? I was just a thinking how Georgie is a missing of me. 800-hoo!”