98 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

Packer—Peter Packer, the man who
rode the pacing mare, and who brought
around the newspaper once a week—was
passing by Captain Ball’s garden one hot
day, and happening to look over the
fence, he saw the captain weeding his
onion bed. And how do you think he
got the weeds up? TI shall have to tell
you; for I don’t believe you would guess
how the thing was done, if you were to
rack your brains about it for twenty
years. He sat in his rocking chair, and
rocked forward to get hold of the weed,
and backward to pull it up. Don’t you
think he ought to have had a patent for
that way of weeding onion beds ?