12 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

at nothing else. We must take some
notice of things as well as of people.
We cannot very well avoid doing 80, if
we would; and I do not think it would
be best to do so, if we could. I am
more anxious to weave together a bundle
of stories which will please you, and
which will have something in them of
real value to you, than I am to select
just such facts and incidents, and only
such, as will fit the name I give them.
So you must not shake your head, if
it seems to you that I do, once in a
while, get away a few paces from the
text I have taken. Ministers do not
always stick very closely to their texts,