PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS. 101

warn everybody of the evils of laziness,
and of: the habit of leaving things half
done.

Captain Ball showed his lazy habits on
the Sabbath, as well as on week days.
Almost as soon as he got into the
meeting house—we had no churches in
that part of the country where I was
brought up; houses of worship were all
meeting houses—almost as soon as he got
into the meeting house, and took his
seat, he went to sleep, and he frequently
slept, it seemed to me, through all the
sermon. I never could see what good it
did him to go to meeting at all.

Would you believe it? He frequently