94. PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

Ball Family, and I will tell you just
what Captain Ball’s faults were; for
he had faults, and they were such as
everybody ought to try hard to keep
clear of. )

He was not a bad man. He never
took to drinking, as I am sorry to say too
many of the farmers in Willow Lane did.
He was temperate. There was not a
better neighbor in the place than Jona-
than Ball. His great faults were that he
was fazy, and that he did not stick to
one thing. Now, though I am not sure
that he ever would have made a very
good militia captain, at the best, if he had
tried ever so hard and go long, yet he