A Cage of Finches LARGE families are--as my experience goes--of two sorts.

We have the families whose members all admire each other.

And we have the families whose members all detest each other.

For myself, I prefer the second sort.

Their quarrels are their own affair; and they have a merit which the first sort are never known to possess--the merit of being sometimes able to see the good qualities of persons who do not possess the advantage of being related to them by blood.