PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS. 13

‘¢ What’s that ?” I asked.

‘They know that it is rather a dan-
gerous place,”’ was the reply.

** But Peter goes there,”’ said I.

‘‘ Peter is a man,” said my brother.

At that remark I remember I laughed.
I laughed to think that Peter could per-
form any feat in the way of climbing,
which I dared not attempt. Boys have
often great confidence in themselves.
As they grow older, and gradually draw
nearer the period of manhood, they are
apt to think less and less of themselves.
My confidence in myself, on this occa-
sion, was not courage. It was not hero-
ism. It me nothing of the kind. It

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