104 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

Captain Ball had no curb to his well.
He was always thinking about doing it,
and making up his mind that he would
do it; but he never set himself about it.
One of the neighbors ventured to hint to
hin that the well was not safe. ‘“* Per-
haps not,” he said, with a yawn, “ but I
have had it so more than fifteen years,
and there haven’t been but two drowned
in it, and one of them was a mere child.”

The well curb was never built in the
captain’s day, I believe.