96 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

always unfortunate. Let him attempt to
do what he might, he had «bad luck,”
to use his own words, though I do not
like them, and never did.

I have known the captain in haying
time, when the Weather was very hot,
sit under a tree in the meadow, and
smoke a pipe for more than half an hour,
when there was a thunder shower coming
on, and he must have known that it was
quite as much as he and his men could do
to get the hay raked up before the rain
began to pour down, even if they had all
worked like beavers every moment of
the time.

He was almost—not quite, T confess—