14 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

was something for which I deserved a
great deal more censure than praise.

I finally reasoned my brother into the
conclusion that, on the whole, it was best
to climb up to the scaffold; or, rather, I
talked to him till he had used up all his
arguments, for I hardly think he was
altogether convinced that I was right.
We arranged everything in our own
minds, so that our parents would never
know that we had climbed the scaffold.
They would wonder, we knew, where
we got such a large quantity of eggs.
But we were going to deal out our infor-
mation as physcians of a certain school
deal out medicines to their patients—in