164 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

so anxious to please everybody, or for
some other reason, used too often, as he
grew older, to do as he was urged to do,
when by so doing, he was the cause of a
good deal of mischief.

There were in our village, as there
are, I am sorry to say, in too many other
places in different parts of the country,
some young men that indulged in drink-
ing intoxicating liquors. Once in a
while they got together, and drank a
good deal, at which times they did a
great many foolish things, as if they were
trying to see which could act most like a
brute. I believe they sometimes suc-
ceeded in outdoing all the brutes that