TO PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

‘little shavers.”? Some loose pieces of
timber were placed on the high beams,
in the fall of the year, reaching across
the barn floor, from one beam to the
other. These timbers formed a tempo-
rary scaffold, on which they placed
bundles of rye and oats, before they
were threshed.

You will readily see that this scaffold
was not a safe place for boys. Besides
the danger of sliding off, there was also
danger that the timbers would spread
apart, so as to let a person through. We
boys were cautioned, again and again, of
the danger of that scaffold, and forbidden
to go there on any account whatever.