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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 57

Jim. aged five, is devoted to his sister Nancy, aged three The pther night it was decreed thar Nancy should take a dose of Gregory’s Powder, but not even the bribe of chocolate afterwards eould induce her to swallow it. Jim was watching the battle. “ You’ll be ill. darling, if you don’t take it.” exclaimed mother; “and then you’ll have to stay in bed and have lots of nasty medicine.” This awful probability was too much for Jim. and, taking the glass from the table—where his mother had put it in despair—he smiled at Nancy, and said: “Look. I’ll drink this up. and then you can have some.” And he drank it. He evidently thought he would encourage Nancy. But it didn’t.