CHAPTER VI
HOME AFFECTIONS
"Keep the spell of home affection.
Still alive in every heart;
May its power, with mild direction,
Draw our love from self apart,
Till thy children
Feel that thou their Father art."
SCHOOL HYMN.
"I have caught such a lot of pretty sea anemones, Eric," said little Vernon Williams, as his brother strolled in after morning school; "I wish you would come and look at them."
"O, I can't come now, Verny; I am going out to play cricket with some fellows directly."
"But it won't take you a minute; do come."
"What a little bore you are. Where are the things?"
"O, never mind, Eric, if you don't want to look at them," said Vernon, hurt at his brother's rough manner.
"First you ask me to look, and then say 'never mind,'" said Eric impatiently; "here, show me them."