CHAPTER VI.
THE BALL FAMILY.

Capratn Bax was a notorious charac-
ter among us, and his family were noto-
rious, too. We will have a peep at
them, if you please. The captain lived
on the hill—not the hill on which the
school house stood, recollect, but the
high one on the other side of the great
brook. I believe it went by the name
of Breakneck Hill, among the older