110 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

thought I had kept as far away from him
as possible ; I always meant to do so.
Nor did I know what peaching meant.
Until that time, I had, it so happened,
never met the verb to peach. 1 learned,
however, from a word or two which Joe
added, that peaching was playing the
part of the tell-tale. My crime, it ap-
peared, was telling the schoolmaster who
pelted the old school house with spoiled
eggs—a piece of information which cost
Joe the hardest flogging, I suppose, that
he ever got in his life. Now it so hap-
pened that, until Joe Ball got whipped,
I did not know or suspect that he threw
the eggs; nor do I know to this day