LITTLE VEMBA BROWN

VEMBA was a new name in the Brown family; and,
very properly, it was given to a brand-new girl,— the
sweetest, prettiest mite of a girl, in fact, that ever had
come to join the Brown household. To be sure, six years
before this, they had weleomed a Morris Brown nearly
as small and sweet and pretty, and, later on, a Harris
Brown, who began life as a baby of the very first quality ;
but they, both, were boys. And here was a girl! She
was so new that she did not know Morris and Harris
were in the house. Think of that! And if she had
noticed them, she would not have had the slightest idea
who they were. Dear me! How very well acquainted
the three became after awhile! But at first, when the
little girl was only a few wecks old, she was still quite
a stranger to the boys, and had no other name than Miss
3yown; yet she had the air of owning not only Mr. and
Mrs. Brown, but all the family, and the very house they
lived in. Why, the King of the Cannibal Islands him-
self could not have made her change countenance unless
she chose to do so.

 

Well, there they were-— Morris Brown, aged six years,

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