"It will be ever so jolly," broke out Affonzo, the irrepressible.
"Yes," said Martim. "I'll have another girl cousin to tease, but she won't treat me as unkindly as you treat your Brazilian cousins, Maria."
"Well, maybe not," laughed Maria, "but you know Guacha is the only one of you all who is really and truly my Little Brazilian Cousin."
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[19] Homesickness.
[20] Written by Goncalves Dias, who perished by shipwreck in sight of his native shores.