8 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

this label on them: “4 Budget of
Willow Lane Stories.’”’ I had quite a
liking for these stories myself. <‘ That’s
natural enough, Uncle Frank’’—so I
fancy I hear you say—‘‘ because you
made them; and people are apt to like
what they make.’ Yes, I know that
well enough; and perhaps that is one
reason why I took so kindly to these
stories. But that was not the only rea-
son. It was not the chief reason, I
think. Willow Lane was the place
where I was born, and where I spent
the merriest days of my life.

I said I liked these stories, and that
I liked them because they had so much