CHAPTER VII.
CHIPS OF THE OLD BLOCK.

Caprain Batt’s children had very
poor bringing up. I might almost say
they came up themselves.

I never had such a perfect horror of
any one person in my life, as I had of
Joe Ball, the oldest of the boys. I had
some reason to be afraid of him, as you
will see when you learn what he did to
me once. : will tell you how it was.