PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS. 21

How often, when he reined his old
sorrel horse up to our house, and hitched
her to the fence near the door, and came
in, slowly and gravely, with an air so
dignified, have I wished I might ;haye
leave to get into the farthest corner of,)
the garret, and to remain there among:
the rats and cobwebs, until that..great.
man should remount his little pacers :and:;
how often, too, after I, had spoken: to; my :
good pastor, and ,he had ‘spoken: to me,;:
and kindly patted::me on myhead, and;
told me some nice..story, with a goody
moral tacked to the end: of :it,: haves;E:
wished, whenoi<have heard: him. call: for ::
his; hat, abdosayiine must go, that; he»