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people, because it was so frightfully
steep.

You will think that all the folks in
Willow Lane had their names spliced
with some sort of title or other. And
you will think pretty nearly right. I
can hardly remember one full grown
man that had not some handle to his
name. How some of themen came by
the title they were so generally known
by, is much more than I can tell, and
probably more than anybody can tell.
Jonathan Ball, however, had a good right
to his title. He was the commander-
in-chief of the Willow Lane militia,
and led that valiant band on training