Grand River Times

There is no estimating the strength of affection which a boy of noble nature bears to his little sister. It is related of a boy in New Hampshire, who had lost a little sister of whom there was no likeness, that he resolved to try the following singular, and one would think hopeless, expedient for supplying one. In spite of all remonstrances, he set out for Boston, where, accompanied by an artist, he visited all the picture galleries, pointing out a feature in this picture and an expression in that, requesting to have them composed in a portrait under his own eye. It is delightful to add that, after many discouraging failures, he succeeded in suggesting to the painter the image that was upon his heart, and bore home in triumph a likeness of the lost one, which was so perfect and beautiful as to be recognized at a glance by all who had known her. How irrepressible is the reader's exclamation, "God bless that boy!" and what a pleasure it would afford one to give him a friendly push—upward and onward.