100 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

that was. I never heard what was the
matter with the mill. But I remember
well that Captain Ball got sick of it. He
never made another trial to get the saw
agoing, after that day. He was not the
man to stick to anything, especially if
there was any trouble or hard work
about it.

When I last saw that mill—I don’t
mean when I last sawed with it, for
there was never any sawing done there—
when I last saw that mill, it was a per-
fect wreck. It was all tumbling to
pieces. As I stopped a moment to look
at it, and thought of its history, it seems
ed like a monument, put up there to