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Shute + +Release Date: December 5, 2006 [EBook #20022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 'SEQUIL' *** + + + + +Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +1. This text has numerous intentionally misspelled words. +2. In several instances, what would normally be a full stop has been + presented in the original text and here as an extra space. +3. The punctuation and spelling of the original text have been retained + throughout. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +"SEQUIL" + +Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First + +By +HENRY A. SHUTE + +Published by +The Everett Press +Boston, Mass., Mcmiv + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Copyright, 1904, by Henry A. Shute. + +Entered at Stationers' Hall. + +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + +"SEQUIL" + +OR THINGS WHITCH AINT FINISHED IN THE FIRST + + +Sept. 7, 186- Gosh, what do you think, last nite father and mother and +me and Keene and Cele and aunt Sarah was sitting at supper when father, +he sed i am a going to read your diry tonite. Gosh i was scart for i +hadent wrote ennything in it for a long time. so after supper i went +over to mister Watsons and asked him if he dident want to see father and +he sed he wood and i went home and told father mister Watson wanted him +to come over jest as quick as he cood and father went over. i knew +father woodent ever think of it agen. father and mister Watson Beanys +father set and talked about what they usted to do and father sed do you +remember Wats that time you and Bill Yung and Brad Purinton and Jack Fog +went down to, and then he saw me and Beany lissening and he sed, you +boys run away and he giv me 5 cents and me and Beany went over to old Si +Smiths for some goozberies but i have got to wright that old diry some +more whitch is pretty tuf, i have forgot whether it was brite and fair +sence i wrote my last diry or not, but ennyway it is brite and fair +today. Lots of things have hapened sense i wrote my last diry. Beanys +father is a poliseman now and Beany feels prety big. Beany hadent better +say mutch to me ennyway. the stewdcats have come back and they has been +lots of fites. Scotty Briggam licked 2 stewdcats in one day. one day me +and Pewt and Beany was standing in frunt of the libary and 2 stewdcats +went in and Pewt threw a peace of dry mud and it hit the stewdcat rite +in the neck and bust and went down his coller and he see us laffin and +he walked rite out to where we was standing and he sed sorter sisy like +whitch of you boys throwd that, and Pewt sed jest like him, if you are +so smart you had better find out, and he grabed Pewt and throwd him rite +in the guter and roled him round in the mud and hit him 3 good bats in +the ear. me and Beany run and Pewt he was mad becaus we dident pich in +and help him, but lots of times me and Beany has got licked and Pewt +never helped us. i told Father about it and he sed he was glad of it and +he wished the stewdcats had licked me and Beany two. + +Sept. 8, 186- brite and fair. the band played tonite downtown. we all +went down but mother and aunt Sarah and the baby and Franky and Georgie +and Annie who was all two little except mother and aunt Sarah who had to +stop and take care of them. the band played splendid and Fatty Walker +jest pounded the base drum as hard as he cood. most of the fellers run +round and played tag and hollered but i set still. i cant see how +fellers can run round and holler when a band plays. they tried to pull +me out of my seet but i giv Beany a good punch. when we came home +mother asked if i had behaived and father sed i set there jest like a +old potato. he sed i dident know much ennytime but when i herd music i +dident know ennything. + +Sept. 9, 186- Will Simpkins is coming to visit us. he is my cuzon and is +older then i am and every time he comes he licks me. i dont dass to tell +becaus he is company. so this time i am going to get Gim Erly or Tady +Finton to lick him. he is coming next Saterday. he lives in a city and +wears a neckti every day and feels prety big and says i am a countryman. + +I see Gim Erly today and he says he will lick time out of Will for a +nife and a slingshot. i had lost my nife so i told Beany and he sed he +wood give Gim his nife if he wood let him see the fite. Will licked +Beany last summer and Beany aint forgot it. then i dident have enny +slingshot and so i told Fatty and Fatty he sed he wood give Gim his +slingshot if he cood see the fite. it seemed kinder mean not to tell +Pewt, so i told Pewt and he sed he would give me his fathers pigs +bladder when it was killed if i wood let him see the fite, that makes 2 +bladders i am going to have this fall. Oliver Lane is going to give me +his, they will make bully footballs. i gess i can get Potter to give me +a leest flycatches egg if i will let him see the fite. + +Sept. 10. Brite and fair. Will Simpkins is coming tomorrow. i bet he +will wish he hadent after Gim Erly gives him that licking. Potter gave +me a red wing blackbirds egg and a chippys egg and 2 blewjays wings to +see the fite. + +Sept. 11. Brite and fair. it was the best fite i have seen since Cris +Staples licked Charlie Clark you had aught to have seen it. Will came +this morning he was all dressed up and had his shoes blacked. i knew +that wood make Gim want to lick him. i felt kinder mean when he came +becaus he seamed glad to see me, and mother sed i hope you boys will +have a real nice time together, and i sed i gess we will. so after +dinner i asked him to go over to Beanys and we went over and Gim was +there and Potter and Pewt and Fatty and Billy Swett came with Fatty and +he wispered he wood giv me a whailbone bow. Gim sed to me easy have you +got them things and i sed yes and Gim sed no fooling and i sed hope to +die and i crosed my throte and i sed you have got to lick him first and +he sed he wood lick him. so we went over in the high school yard to play +prisners bass. well prety soon Gim sed Will cheeted, and Will said he +dident, and Gim sed do you mean to call me a lier and Will sed he dident +cheet and Gim sed he wood giv him a paist on the nose, and Will sed he +want man enuf and Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to +dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told +Gim not to dass to nock it off and Will sed if he hit Gim he wood nock +him so far he woodent come down at all and Gim sed if he hit him there +woodent be ennything left of him but a red neckti, and Will told Gim he +was a freckled faced mick and Gim told Will he was a curly haired nigger +and just then Fatty give Will a push rite into Gim and they went at it +and Gim licked time out of Will and got him down and lammed him until he +hollered enuf. then Will he went home balling and i had to go two and +when we got home mother sed it was a shame and she wood tell father when +he got home. when father got home mother told him and sed it was a shame +that Willy, she calls him Willy, i am glad my name aint Willy, i had +rather be called Skinny or Polelegs or Plupy then Willy, well she sed it +was a shame that Willy coodent play with me without having that dredful +Erly boy fiting him and she wanted father to go up to Mr. Tucks where +Gim lives and tell him about it. Well father sed boys always fit and +she mustent wurry about it he gessed Willy wood get over it. but he told +me not to ask Gim Erly down here agen. so after supper when i had to go +for the yeest i ran up to Gims and giv him the nife and the slingshot +and told him not to tell. + +Sept. 12. Brite and fair. Will has got a black eye and a scrached nose. +Nellie has got well and we had a ride today after church and i let Will +drive. in the afternoon Beany and Pewt came over and we had a shooting +mach with the whailbone bow behind the barn. i told Beany and Pewt not +to tell for if they did father woodent let us go together agen. Fatty +and Potter and Billy Swett wont tell ether. + +Sept. 13, 186- Brite and fair. today we had a good time. mother let me +invite Beany and Pewt and Nipper Brown to supper for company for Will. +Pewt coodent come becaus he shot one of his fathers hens with his arrow +rifle jest like i shot my hen whitch was eating eggs and Mister Purinton +Pewts father woodent let him come. i gess if father had been at home for +supper i wood have got a licking but he dident get home til the 7 oh +clock train. well we had been raising time up in my room and when we +went down to supper i pulled a chair out when Nipper went to set down +and he set rite down on the floor bang and grabed the table cloth and +pulled of his plate and cup and sauser and Beanys sauser and they came +rite down on his head and broak to smash. Nipper was scart but mother +picked him up and said he needent wurry for she dident care for the +dishes and asked him if he was hurt and said it was my falt and she told +me i had aught to be ashamed and I hadent aught to have company if i +dident know how to treet them. she dident send me to bed becaus she had +to be polite to Beany and Nipper and so i was all rite, after supper we +played domminoes til the nine oh clock bell rang and then Beany and +Nipper went home. + +Sept. 14. Brite and fair. Will went home to-day i was sorry he went, we +had a good time and i never knew him to be such a good feller before. i +gess it did him good to get a lickin. father says it always does me good +to get a good lickin. before he went he got me to throw a ball easy at +him and he let it hit him in the eye so he cood tell his folks that a +ball hit him in the eye, so he wood not have to tell a lie to his father +about his black eye. a feller feels a good deal better when he doesent +have to lie to his folks. when i usted to hook in swiming i usted to +stick my head in the rane water barril so I cood tell father how i wet +my hair. i dident like to do it sometimes becaus the barril was full of +little wigglers but i had ruther do that then have to tell a lie, +ennyway i gess all the wigglers that got into my hair died becaus they +never bit me. father says they turn into musketers. + +Sept. 15, 186- Brite and fair. i forgot to say that i giv Will the +whailbone bow that Billy Swett giv me to see the fite. he was glad to +get it i tell you, and he sed i was the best feller he knew. i told him +when he came here agen we wood have some more fun. mother gave him 25 +cents and gave me ten cents for being so good to him. me and Pewt and +Beany had some goozeberies down to old Si Smiths. father told me one +time i cood have a football, so i asked him tonite and he sed i dident +desirve ennything, that i had caused him a good deal of truble, ennyway +i am going to have 2 bladders. + +Sept. 16. Clowdy but no rane. Beany and Ticky Moses got fiting at resess +today. we was playing 2 old cat and we was chewsing sides, and Beany and +Ticky was chewsing and the way they did it was this. Beany he throwed +the bat at Ticky and Ticky he cought it about half way down, and then +Beany he put his hand above Tickys and Ticky he put his above Beanys, +and so on til when they came to the end of the bat the last one whitch +had his hand on has the first choice and no fudging, only he has got to +swing the bat around his head 3 times and throw it 3 times as far as he +can gump. well Beany he had the last hand on the bat and he cood jest +get hold of it a little and when he swung it round his head it sliped +and hit Ticky on his head, and he piched into Beany and jest as they was +fiting good the bell rang. that is jest the way. something always stops +the good fites. i bet on Beany. + +Sept. 17. Brite and fair. the stewdcats have got back long ago--i forgot +to wright that in. they are some new fellers not enny biger then i am. +Honey Donovan licked one of them easy and made him ball like a baby. +Chitter Robinson and a stewdcat named Hall had a fite on the Plains and +neether licked. they fit until they was tired out, and Darlinton a big +stewdcat came up and stoped them. they aint much fun in going to school +now. all the girls go to school in the libary bilding and they is nobody +but fellers in the grammer school. i tell you it is pretty loansom. we +fellers dont care mutch if they miss in there lessons. + +Sept. 18. Brite and fair. after school today me and Beany and Fatty and +Nibby and Lees Moses and Whacker went home by the libary building, when +the girls came out they dident pay enny attension to us becaus the high +school fellers was there. perhaps they will want to slide on our sleds +next winter and then i gess they will find out something. + +Sept. 19, 186- Brite and fair. went to church in the morning and to +sunday school in the afternoon. i have got a new pair of britches. old +Missis Stickny made them out of a old pair of fathers. they wasent very +old becaus they was made out of the same blew coat that father had when +he was going to make his speach when old Dirgin put me out of the town +hall. father sed he wood never ware them britches ennymore. they was too +tite, and his new boots was too tite two, and so he giv them to me, only +i cood have the britches made smaler and i coodent have the boots made +smaler so i will have to wate a long time before i cood ware the boots. +well after sunday school me and Bug and Cawcaw and Pile Wood went down +to the dam. they are having the dam fixed and the water is auful low, +rite below the dam they was some big pikerel in a place where they +coodent get out. well we took off our shues and stockings and begun to +wade in after them and they wood dart round lively and we got pretty +well spatered, and than i fell rite down and got wet soping. after that +i went rite in and we got 12 big pikerel and we had 3 apeace. so i went +home and i was afraid i wood get a licking and i did two, for when i +came in father said where in thunder have you been and i told him and +said here are some good pikerel for supper and he said i will atend to +you sir, and he took me up stairs and gave me a whaling. gosh you bet it +hurt. well then he told me to go to bed and said i coodent have my +supper, and when i took of my close my legs were all blew and i called +mother up to see how i was black and blew and when she came up she said +for mersy sakes, the coler has all come out of your pants and you are +all chekered blew, so i tride to wash it of, and it woodent come of. so +i went to bed and i felt auful hungry and i cood hear them at supper and +i could smell beefstake and i almost wished father was ded, and when it +was almost dark mother come up with a tray and she had fride one of the +pikerel and had some tost and a baked potato and i set up and had a buly +supper. mother wasent mad a bit with me but she told me i did rong but +she gessed i got my pay for it and i gess i did. mother is jest as good +as she can be. + +Sept. 20. Brite and fair. the coler hasent gone of my legs yet. tonite +father took me down to Erl and Cuts where he got the coat that my +britches was made out of and told Erl about it and made me show my legs, +and Erl said i gess George, the cloth hadent been spunged, and father +said i dont know about the cloth, but he was spunged most damly when he +got them. and mister Erl laffed and gave father a pair of new britches, +and we went home. father felt pretty good about it, it dont seam rite, i +got a lickin and got my legs all blew and it wont come of, and father +got a new pair of britches for nothing. enny way one of these pickerel +waid a pound. + +Sept. 21. tonite i went over to Beanys. Mister Watson Beanys father was +leening his head on his hand and i stumped Beany to pull his elbo out. +and we nearly dide laffing to think about it and by and by Beany got up +his spunk and pulled his elbo out and his head came rite down on the +table and he jumped up and grabed Beany and hit him some good bats and +sent him to bed and told me to go home and never come over there +ennymore. so i cant go with Beany ennymore. the coler hasent gone out of +my legs. + +Sept. 22. Rany. the coler has begun to go of my legs. + +Sept. 23. Rany as time. we got some soft sope of old man Currier today +and the coler is most gone. + +Sept. 24. It is all gone now. + +Sept. 25. Lubbin Smith and Geen Titcum got fiting at resess today and +the bell rung before eether had licked. i bet on Lubbin. i went down for +some more pikerel today but the river is two deep now. + +Sept. 26. i went to church today. they issent enny fun sundays. + +Sept. 27, 186- Brite and fair. today we was playing football at school +and Whacker got rooted agenst Colbaths barn and hit his head whack and +fell down jest as if he was ded, and old Francis came running out and +grabed him up and put water on his head and then he waked up and was all +rite but he had a headake. + +Sept. 28. Rany as time. father has sold Nelly to old Si Smith. she was +lame in her hind leg and when she stands in the stable she holds her +hind leg up in the air all the time, and when she goes out she limps +auful but after she goes a while she aint lame. so last nite father +hiched her up and took me and we drove over to Wire Shaws in Kensington +and when we came back he took out the whip and hit her under the belly +with it 2 times and you aught to see her go. when we came to old Si +Smiths she was going like old Billy Robinsons troter. then father turned +round and drove up to Sis and old Si and Shep Hodgden and Gimmy Biddle +and Charles Fifield was there and father said this will make jest the +horse you want for your store and old Si said she aint biger than a rat +and father said i gess she is big enuf to carry out all your lodes +unless you put down your price, and then they all laffed at Si, and then +Si said she was a puller and father said what do you want Josiar one +that you have to push, and then they laffed agen and when father called +him Josiar i know Si had better look out for when father calls me Henry +i know i am in for a liking. then Si said she is lame in every leg and +father said you get in here and drive her and if she goes a lame step i +will give her to you, and old Si said to Shep and Gimmy you get in and +drive her and they got in and drove off and father said he wood take 50 +dolars for her and old Si said he wood give 35 dolars for her and they +talked and talked and then Shep and Gimmy came back and said she went +all rite and old Si said he wood give father 40 dolars and father said +she was worth 50 but as Si was a nabor he wood like to acomodate him. +well old Si was counting out the money when he said he bet she was a +kicker father said she is kind as a kitten and dont bite or kick dont +she Harry and i said she cant kick becaus she always holds up one leg in +the stall, and old Si said whats that and i told him how she coodent +kick becaus she held up one leg, and then Gimmy and Shep and Charlie +Fifield and old Mister Page all laffed and hollered and stamped round +and slaped their legs and said that is a good one, and old Si stoped +counting his money and swore aufully and father looked auful mad for a +minit and then he said she is wirth every cent of 50 dolars and asked Si +what he wood give and Si said 15 dolars and they talked and talked and +after a while he give father 25 dolars. then we went home and father +looked prety mad. i dident know what i had done but when we got home he +said Harry you go to bed, so i went up about scart to deth but by and by +i crep to the stairs and lissened and he was telling about it to mother +and he said if he had sence enuf not to ask me about it he cood had got +15 dolars more out of old Si and he was mad enuf to lick me, and then he +began to laff and mother laffed and said it served you jest rite George +to try and cheet a old man, and father said Nelly was wirth 50 dolars +and the last baril of flour that Si sold him was older then Methooselas +gread granfather and he wood have got square with Si if it hadent been +for that boy. well mother said you cant whip him for telling the truth +and father said thunder no i aint going to lick him but i was mad enuf +to. so i felt prety good and crep back to bed. + +Sept. 29. Brite and fair. At school today Scotty Briggam jumped over the +fence today to get the football and fell on his arm and broke it, and +then he went home and came back before school was out with some shingles +tied on his arm. Scotty has got some spunk, but i gess Tady Finton can +lick him now. Old Francis said 2 axidents in 2 days was too mutch and we +mustent play football enny more. so at recess we go behind the school +house and have fites. Gim Miller and Ben Rundlet had a good fite, and +tomorrow Plug Atherton and Diddly Colket are going to have a fite it is +most as much fun to see fites as to play football. + +Sept. 30. Brite and fair. we cant have enny more fites. at recess today +Plug and Diddly had the best fite i ever saw. they fit all recess and +none of us heard the bell and Plug had Diddly down and we were all +hollering, paist him Plug and hit him Diddly when old Francis came round +the corner and grabed Plug and Diddly. i tell you we all went into +school lively and old Francis made Plug and Diddly stand on the platform +all the rest of the day with their arms round each others necks and we +dident have enny recess in the afternoon. it is pretty tuf. we cant play +one old cat becaus old Polly Smith makes a fuss when the ball goes over +her fence and we cant play football becaus Scotty broke his arm and +Whack got stunted, and we cant fite becaus it is rong to fite. we might +jest as well be girls and roll hoop. + +Sept. 31, 186- father has got a new pair of hip boots. rany. + +Sept. 32. No i ment Oct 2. yesterday was Oct 1, and i got it Sept. 31. +went down to Henry Youngs tonite and had my hair cut. he put some auful +nise smeling oil on and when i got home they all took turns in smeling +of my head. + +Oct. 3. i went to Church. Pile Woods sister played the organ she is +going to play all time now. + +Oct. 4. brite and fair today and yesterday. it was so hot today that me +and Chick Chickering went in swiming, the water was cold as time, and we +jest ducked our heads and come out lively. + +Oct. 5. nothing today. brite and fair. they hasent been enny fites at +school for the longest while. + +Oct. 6. Keene and Cele has got some new balmoral skirts. they feel prety +big. + +Oct. 7. Charles Talor was down to the house tonite and kept us all +laffing to hear him tell stories about father and Gim Melcher. + +Oct. 8. brite and fair. tomorrow me and Beany are going to wirk for +Mister Hirvey making ice creem. he is going to give us some and some +creem cakes. i missed in school today. + +Oct. 9. Brite and fair. i gess i shant forget today very soon. this +afternoon we went over to Mister Hirveys and we wirked a long time +making ice creem by turning the handles of the buckets and choping up +the ice. after we got done he let us come into his saloon and we had to +big glasses of pink and yellow mixed and some creemcakes. well after we +had et it Beany said less put some pepersass into the rest of the +creemcakes. so we did and then we went out and peeked through the +window. bimeby a man came in and set down and we saw Mister Hirvey bring +in some icecreem and some creemcakes. well we kept peeking and the +feller et one creemcake and we heard him say to Mister Hirvey that they +were the best creem cakes he ever et and then he took another and took a +hog bite out of it and then he jumped up and his eyes buged out and he +spit it out and begun to swear and drink water and stamp round and +Mister Hirvey said what is the matter and the man spit some more and +swore and said they was helfire in the creemcake, and Mister Hirvey +looked into it and said some one has put pepersass into it and i bet i +know who did it. when i heard him say that i ran round the corner, but +Beany waited too long and Mister Hirvey saw him peeking in the window +and came out lively. well Beany he ran down into Toles yard as tite as +he could go and Mister Hirvey came hipering after him with his white +apron on, i dident know he cood run so fast. bimeby he came back holding +Beany by the ear. Beany he wood try to hold back until his ear nearly +puled of and then he wood come along. well Mister Hirvey snaiked him +rite into his saloon and said, did you put that pepersass into my +creemcakes, and Beany he said he dident, and Mister Hirvey said i dont +want enny lying, and said that Beany and the long leged Shute boy were +the last ones in the place and that one of us did it. and Beany he said +he dident and he saw me with the pepersass bottel in my hand and Mister +Hirvey he said now you have got to eat that creemcake or take a good +licking and he took his cane, and held Beany by the coller and said 1 +and Beany dident eat it, and then he said 2 and Beany dident eat it and +then he said 3 and he hit Beany a auful whack over the legs and Beany +hollered like time and held on to his legs, and then Mister Hirvey he +said 1 again and Beany dident eat it and he said 2 and Beany dident eat +it and jest as he said 3 Beany he grabed it and took a bite and tride to +swaller it and i thought i shood die to see him, he spit and clawed at +his mouth and he howled and jumped up and down and then he ran over to +Charles Toles pump and rensed his mouth and drank out of the horse troth +and Mister Hirvey and the man like to dide laffing. i waited till they +went in and then i went over to see Beany and when i asked him how he +liked the creemcake he said i was a long leged puke. this was one of the +times that Beany got cought and i dident. + +Oct. 10, 186- Sunday agen. brite and fair it never ranes sunday. father +went to church today. he woodent have gone if Keene and Cele hadent +been going to sing a duet. i dident want to go becaus i was afraid they +wood brake down, but father he said i had got to go and so i went. old +mister Blake who sets rite behind us droped his hym book and had to bend +way over to pick it up when he set up he hit his bald head a feerful +bump agenst the book rack. i nearly laffed out loud and had to hold on +to my mouth. + +Oct. 11. J. Albert Clark is teaching Keene and Cele a new tune. Keene +sings the treble and Cele sings the alto. it is there is a bank where on +the wild time grows. at supper tonite i asked what wild time was and +aunt Sarah said it must be what father and Gim Melcher used to have. +then we all laffed and father told aunt Sarah she was geting so funny +that she wood have to wear a kerb bit and a martingail. ennyway it was a +good one on father. + +Oct. 12. the wind blows feerful. father wants me to lern to sing a tune +with Keene and Cele. i dident want to but he said i had got to, so we +tried it, and i sung it rong every time. i sung it jest enuf rong to +make you feel crepey in your back, and father said if you cant sing +better then that you had better shet up. so i shet up. + +Oct. 13. clowdy but no rane. Georgie has lerned a new tune. it is i wood +i were a fary queen. we are going to have the minister to supper and +father is going to make Keene and Cele and Georgie show of. i hate +showing of. ennyway i havent got to show of becaus father says i cant +sing. i can sing but he dont know it you bet. + +Oct. 14. rany and windy. i have got a sore throte. father dident want to +have the minister to supper. he said to mother, what in thunder do you +want a minister for, and mother said, we must have him becaus he will +think it very queer if we dont, only you must be careful not to say or +do ennything queer, and father he said he wood keep his eye peeled, but +he told mother she must look out for the children. + +Oct. 15. still rany, my throte is beter. we are going to have chicking +for supper when the minister comes. tonite father brought some new +goblets from boston. mother and aunt Sarah wirked all day making pies +and cake. then mother let me lite a paper and hold the chickings over it +to burn of the little fethers and hairs i like it becaus it smels like +thanksgiving only i burnt my hand and it smelt jest like the chicking +but i dident like that you bet. + +Oct. 16, 186- today the hole town was full of ministers, most of them +had long tailed coats and white necktis. Deekon Gooch came down to the +house with 2 of them. aunt Sarah was wating in her best dress and when +she saw them coming she said Murder Joanna they is 2 of them, what shall +we do, and mother said, mercy sakes what will George say. well the bell +rung and i went to the door and asked them in and Deekon Gooch said +they was Mister Fernald and Mister Robinson, he said they was his +brothers. then Deekon he went off and i showed them to the front room up +stairs and one of them asked me if i loved the lord and i said yes sir +and he said i was a good boy. and then he asked me if i went to church +and sunday school and i said yes sir and he asked me what was the tex +last sunday and i said i dident know what tex ment and he said what did +he prech from and i said he preeched from the pulpit in church and from +the platform in sunday school, and Mister Fernald he began to laff and +Mister Robinson he said i woodent laff if i was you brother, and then he +said what does the minister say after the first prair and i said o yes i +know now, he says we will now take up the usual colection and then +Mister Fernald laffed again, then Mister Robinson he asked me how many +sisters i had and i said 4 and he asked if they went to church and i +said Keene and Cele sing in the quire and Georgie goes but Annie and +Frankie and the baby was two little and then he asked if father went to +church and i said not very often, only when Keene and Cele had to sing a +duet, and then he asked me what else he did sundays and i said sometimes +he made viniger down celler and sometimes he went over to see John Adams +hens or down to Gim Melchers shop or up to Hirum Gilmores, and he said +it is very deploorible is it not, brother and Mister Fernald he laffed +again and said he gessed he better not ask me any more questions, and +perhaps my father woodent like to have me tell all about him, and i said +father wasent afrade, and he said he dident give much for ministers +ennyway and then Mister Fernald laffed as hard as he cood and Mister +Robinson looked mad, then we went down stairs and they shook hands with +mother and aunt Sarah and Mister Robinson he set down by aunt Sarah and +asked her about the church and prair meetings and why she dident always +go and lots of things like that and Mister Fernald he got the baby in +his lap and he talked to mother about the children and told us stories +and he was jest buly. then bimeby father he came home and he shook hands +with them and he said he was glad to see them whitch was a auful lie. +then mother said super was ready and we all went in to super and father +kept talking and telling stories until mother said George and looked at +him, and he shet up and turned red and then Mister Robinson began to +pray and all of us kept still but Georgie who began to gigle, and mother +looked scowly at her and she shet up two. then father looked at mother +and winked and i had to put my hand over my mouth. mother she almost +laffed to, and Mister Robinson he kept on praying till bimeby Frankie he +said Mama i wish that man wood stop and Mister Fernald he began to coff +i bet he wanted to laff. well ennyway Mister Robinson he stoped. then +father helped them to chicking and bisket and gelly and coffy and +everything and then he helped us and we all begun to eat and bimeby +Annie said we have got some napkins tonite, and Frankie said we have got +some little plates to put the butter on, and i saw them first, and Annie +said we have got some new goblets two, so there, and Frankie run his +tung out at Annie and she made up a face at him, and then father told +them to stop and they stoped and mother and aunt Sarah turned red and +Mister Robinson he looked auful sollum and Mister Fernald looked funny +and then he looked at father an begun to laff and father laffed and then +we all laffed as hard as we cood, and Mister Fernald he said, dont mind +a bit Missis Shute, i have got children of my own, i like Mister +Fernald. after super Frankie and Annie were sent to bed and we went +into the parlor and father kept us all laffing telling stories, and then +Keene and Cele sung now i lay me down to sleep, and there is a bank on +whitch the wild time grows, and Cele sung flow gently sweet Afton and +Georgie sung i wood i were a fary queen, and then Mister Robinson wanted +us to sing a religous song and we sung shall we gather at the river. +then they asked me to sing and i said i coodent and father said before +he thought, that boy is bedeviled to play a cornet, then Mister Fernald +he said let him play it, it wont hurt him, then father begun to tell +some more stories and kept us laffin fit to die, and Mister Fernald he +said he hadent laffed so much for years, and he said, to mother, Missis +Shute i gess you have a prety good natured husband, and she said yes, +and father he said he most never got mad and jest then the bell rung, +and Keene went to the door and said that Mister Swane the poliseman +wanted to see father and father he went to the door and in a minit we +herd him swaring and herd him say it is a dam lie Swane and you know it +and then Swane went away and father came in and said that someone had +ridden horseback over the concreek sidewalk and they tride to lay it on +me. Then it was bedtime and Mister Robinson he prayed some more and he +prayed for those who took the name of the lord in vane, and then we went +to bed. + +Oct. 17. Brite and fair. the old ministers has gone. i am glad of it. i +liked Mister Fernald but i hated old Robinson. i gess he wont get +invited here again. this morning at brekfast he prayed again until the +brekfast was most cold and he prayed a good deal about takin the name of +the lord in vane and i cood see that mother looked mad but she dident +say ennything. bimeby he begun to talk to mother about father having a +unfortunate temper, and said his langage was shocking, and Cele she up +and said, i gess my father is as good as you are and Keene stuck out her +tung and mother sent them away from the table, and then old Robinson he +said i am afrade your children are not well brought up, and mother +looked rite at him a minit and then she said, i shood feel very badly if +my children shood xcept hospitality from another person and crittisise +that person to his face, at all events i cannot submit to have my +husband or my children crittisized, and Mister Robinson he dident say +ennymore you bet. after brekfast they went away, and Mister Fernald he +shook hands with us all and he asked mother to let Cele and Keene come +down to shake hands and she did. after they had went mother she gave us +a peace of mince pie apeace and we all hoorayed for mother. none of us +went to church today. + +Oct. 18. brite and fair. tonite father borowed Gim Loverings horse and +wagun to go riding. Gim said it aught to be greesed, so father asked me +to greese the wheals, and then he said i will do it myself, and then i +will be sure it will be done rite. so he got the munky rench and the +lantern and some lard and went out to greese the wheals, and when he had +greesed them he come in and washed his hands and then he went out and +told mother not to set up for him and he unhitched the horse and +hollered gitap and when the horse started one side of the wagun went +down whack and out came father. well he held on to the ranes and stoped +the horse and mother said what is the matter, and father said that +infernal boy dident screw up the nut and the wheal come of and nearly +broke my neck, and as soon as i tie this horse i will give him a good +whaling and aunt Sarah said George you greesed the wheals yourself and +father said by thunder so i did. then i got the lantern and we looked +for the wheal and it was leaning up against the apple tree and father +said jest look at that, the wheal ran up to the tree and stoped, and +then we hunted round for the nut and we coodent find it and i got down +on my nees and father held the lantern, and Cele and Keene came out and +hunted and we coodent find it. bimeby father said he could put on the +wheal and hold it on till he got back to Gims and he lifted up the ex +and i went to put on the wheal and there was the nut all screwed on the +ex. father had put on the nut but had forgot to put on the wheal and had +left the ex resting on the jack. i gess he hadent better say mutch about +me. + +Oct. 19. I have got a new box of paper collers. + +Oct. 20. brite and fair. this afternoon me and Fatty Melcher wirked all +the afternoon puting leafs in old Putty Lowjys barn. old Putty said he +wood pay us but when we asked him for our pay he said we cood have all +the horse chesnuts we wanted. so we got a baskit and picked it full and +went back to Fattys and pluged horse chesnuts at old Puttys cat. + +Oct. 21. brite and fair. Skinny Bruce and Ben Rundlet got fiting today. +old Bandbox Tomson came in to lern us some music and he left his fiddel +in the entry and at resess Ben he put some sope on his bow and when old +Bandbox tried to play on it he coodent make a squeak. then old Francis +asked every feller in school who done it, and when Ben said he dident +know who done it old Francis he up and whaled time out of Ben. i gess +old Francis see Ben do it. ennyway after school Skinny he hollered Ben +how did you like your licking, and Ben he hollered back Skinny Bruce is +a redheaded goose, and Skinny he got mad and paisted Ben one in the eye +and Ben he give Skinny a sidewinder and then they fit from first base to +Colbaths barn where Whack got stunted and old Polly Smith came out and +said if they dident stop fiting she wood go for the polise, and so they +stoped. i bet on Skinny. + +Oct. 22, 186- brite and fair and most as hot as summer. that was prety +mean of old Putty. + +Oct. 23. Mary Watson, Beany's sister and Mary Straton whose father +chased me and Beany when we broke the gaslite, can run faster then enny +of the fellers xcept Tomtit and Arthur Francis. + +Oct. 24. i have been sick agen. not very sick but my legs aked ferful. +mother says it is becaus i am growin so fast, but i know why, me and +Boog Chadwick rassled all yesterday afternoon. ferst i throwed Boog and +then Boog throwed me, and when we got through Boog was only 2 throws +ahead. we dident get mad at all. ennyway i dident have to go to church. + +Oct. 25. tonite we had company to super. Mister and Missis Merill. +Frankie did a funny thing. father asked mother for some chese and +mother she said they wasent enny, and Frankie he said he knew where they +was some and father said all rite Frankie if you can get some i will +give you a cent, father he thinks Frankie is auful smart, and so Frankie +he climed out of his high chair and ran out into the kitchen and bimeby +he came in with 3 little peaces of chese and father he asked him where +he got them and he brought in the rat trap. you had just aught to have +herd them laff. + +Oct. 26. Clowdy but no rane. some folks can eat chese that is all +wiggly. + +Oct. 27. still clowdy. i cant. + +Oct. 28. Beany has got the best little ax i ever saw. his father got it +for him to split his kindlins. i wish i had one like it for i have to +split my kindlins with a old rusty ax that ways about a tun. + +Oct. 29. brite and fair. tonite i went over and helped Beany split +kindlins with his new ax. it was jest as easy as ennything. + +Oct. 30. brite and fair. old Tom Fifield killed his pig today and give +Beany the bladder, and we blew it up with a pipe stem and kicked it for +a football after school. Jack Melvin is going to have Micky Kelleys +fathers pigs bladder, only he dont kill his pig till most winter. i am +going to have Oliver Lanes, and his pig is the bigest in town. i bet his +will be as big as the stewdcats big football. all the fellers wish they +cood get it. + +Oct. 31. cold as time this morning, but i had to go to church jest the +same. + +Nov. 1. Beany got a licking today for hollering after old Nancy Marble. +she went into Beanys house and told Beanys father. i hollered two but +father was in boston and she coodent tell him. + +Nov. 2. brite and fair. Oliver Lane killed his pig today. it was the +bigest pig in town. i had been wating for the bladder ever sense last +June and i thought such a big pig aught to have a big bladder, but it +was jest the littlest bladder i ever see. i suppose it was so fat inside +they wasent enny room for the bladder. Skinny Bruces pigs fathers +bladder, no i mean Skinny Bruces fathers pigs bladder was most twice as +big. + +Nov. 3. Brite and fair. the water in the rane baril was froze over last +nite. today i blew up the bladder and dride it in the kitchen. it made a +prety good football. Pewt dident give me his fathers pigs bladder that +he promised me when i let him see the fite when Gim Erly licked Will +Simpkins. you jest wait Pewt and you will see. + +Nov. 4. brite and fair. Georgie got sent to bed today and had to stay in +bed all the afternoon. mother told her not to tuch a vase that was full +of sand to make it heavy. i wanted the sand for my aquarian and so i +poored it out. well bimeby Georgie came in and went up to take the vase +and it was so lite that when she lifted hard it came up so quick that +she went rite over backward and smashed the vase all to bits. mother +came running in and found that Georgie wasent hurt, but she howled as +loud as she cood so that mother woodent lick her, and so she got sent to +bed. mother said it sirved her rite. + +Nov. 5. Brite and fair. i have been sick today. i gess i et two much +spare rib. when i think of it it makes me sick. so i have been thinking +over the poitry about the fellers. some of it is prety good. + + Ed Tole fell in a hole + and coodent get out to save his sole + +i made that up. + + Plupy Shute + is a dirty brute. + and never will fite + if they is a chance to scoot. + +Pewt he made that up. + + Old Tim Calahan + he was a hell of a man. + +Fatty Melcher he made that up. + + Frank Hanes aint got enny branes + and dont know enuf to go in when it ranes + +Beany he made that up. + + Nipper Brown tumbled down + and busted his head and cracked his crown. + +i made that up too. + + Granvil Miller the barber + went to shave his father + the razer sliped and cut his lip + becaus he forgot the lather. + +Skinny Bruce he made that up. + +i tell you they is some prety good poits among the fellers. but any +feller whitch gets poitry made up about him gets mad. + +Nov. 6. brite and fair. Ed Tole can spit further than enny feller in +school. + +Nov. 7. Keene and Cele are sick in bed and coodent sing today in +church. they have feerful headakes. docter Perry came in to see them. + +Nov. 8. brite and fair. Keene and Cele and Georgie are all sick now and +the docter says it is scarlet fever. they are all up in the front +chamber and mother and aunt Sarah take care of them. + +Nov. 9. clowdy but no rane. Annie is sick now and i cant go to school +ennymore. i like that. so i am making a hen koop. + +Nov. 10. Rany today. Beany he hollered over today to find out how Keene +and Cele and Georgie and Annie are. i have got a soar throte but i aint +going to tell ennyone about it. + +Nov. 11. i had a headake all last nite. i bet i am going to have the +fever. Frankie has got it now and mother is afrade the baby is coming +down, she asked me how i felt and i said buly. + +Nov. 12. old Missis Smith is helping take care of the house and gets the +brekfasts and dinners and suppers. today docter Perry he came down +stairs and i was setting in a chair and he said what is the matter with +you, and i said nothing and he said let me look at your throte, and he +made me open my mouth and he looked down in my gozzle and then he said +you march upstairs into the hospitle and tell your mother that you are a +new pacient and i went up and when mother saw me come in she said well i +have been expecting you. then i went down to my room and got my +niteshert and i thaught i aught to write this down becaus i might die. +people do die of scarlet fever, i wonder if ennyone wood read it if i +did die. ennyway father said once that a boy whitch was born to be hung +never wood die in enny other way, so i gess i am all rite. ennyway i +aint going to wright ennymore till i get well. + + * * * * * + +Jan. 17. brite and fair. i dident die and every one of us got well. +Annie had it the wirst and i had it the next wirst and Frankie and the +baby want hardly sick any. today is the first time i have been out. Cele +and Keene went out last Wensday but i coodent becaus i hadent got done +peeling. after folks have the scarlet fever their skin dries up and +peels of and if you get cold in the peeling you die every time. i had on +my Hoppy Gad boots for the first time today. father brougt them up to +show me when i was in bed. i was prety sick and dident know nothing for +2 or 3 days. mother says i was talking about the fellers i knew in +Reading. we lived in Reading one year and so i thought i was there i +gess and she says i talked of George and Wendal Evans and Puggy +Fergerson and Totty Procter and Emma Wallis and Jonny Pike and Ed +Harndin and Nelly Minot. i had a fite with Ed Harndin and licked him. +when Willy died we came back to Exeter, and she said i talked about +Willy to, and everything. we had some fun while we was sick. Cele used +to tell stories and we made flyboxes and then when mother was out of the +room we wood turn sumersets, and bimeby when we got so that we cood eat +apples we used to have one apeace every day and we had to scrape them +with a nife and eat the soft part, and when we were geting beter we were +auful cross. i gess most every one wood be cross to lose thanksgiving +and crismas two, and my berthday, and all the skating and snowbaling. +ennyway i havent got to go to school this week. + +Jan. 18, 186- buly snowbaling. i went out today a long time, mother told +me not to plug snowballs, so i only throwed 2 or 3. i am hungry all the +time. + +Jan. 19. brite and fair. one of my hens died when i was sick and the +rooster frose his comb. it is prety tuf on me. + +Jan. 20. i went sliding today on factory hill, it was buly. they wasent +hardly ennyone there. + +Jan. 21. brite and fair. Whack and Boog have got a duble runner, they +made it out of there sleds dart and arrow. it is the fastest duble +runner on the hill. i went with them. we beat Pewts duble runner esy. +Pewts is biger and Mister Purington Pewts father painted it buly but it +cant go as fast or as fur as Whack and Boogs. Pewt was mad becaus we +beat him. + +Jan. 22. i went to church today. Keene and Cele sung in the quire. Beany +kept sticking his head out from behind the organ and making up faces at +me to make me laff out loud till the minister spoke to him and he felt +prety cheep. + +Jan. 23. snowed and raned today both, i had my sled painted today. it is +painted black with a gold stripe and Exeter Boy in gold letters on it. +Mister Purington Pewts father painted it. i went to school today. nobody +got licked. + +Jan. 24. clowdy. my sled is most dry enuf to use. + +Jan. 25. it misted last nite and frose and today everything was covered +with ice it was fun to see people fall down. most everybody fell down. i +went sliding on spring street. + +Jan. 26. cold as time. i went to school. we are going over colburns in +revew and so i can keep up. + +Jan. 27. I havent got ennything to wright today xcept that i went to +school. John Adams has got a new brama rooster. + +Jan. 28. Brite and fair. i licked Ti Crummet today. me and Whack and +Fatty Melcher was over on Factory Hill sliding and Ti Crummet and Hirum +Mingo and Bobberty Robinson and Dinky Lord came over and i had my sled +all new painted, Pewts father painted it and Ti Crummet run his old sled +agenst it and nocked of sum of the paint, and i told him to keep his old +sled of mine and Ti he said he wood nock sum of the paint of me if i +said 2 words more and then he swoar feerfully. i dident say nothing +becaus i dident want to fite him, and Hirum Mingo said Plupy says he can +lick you Ti and Ti said i can nock hel out of you old spindel legs and i +said i dident say so and Ti he swoar sum more so it sort of scart me, +well then i was going and Hirum he pushed Ti rite into me and he kicked +me in the leg and got hold of my hair and i got the under hold and got +him down jest as esy as ennything and then i set on him and lammed him +til he holered enuf and then i let him up and he went home balling. i +bet he beter not fite me agen. + +Jan. 29. Brite and fair. it aint the feller whitch can swear the +feerfullest whitch is the best fiter. i went to church and sunday school +today. + +Jan. 30. Brite and fair. Johnny Kelly can lick enny feller on Court or +South Street and he can swear auful two. i gess most of the fellers is +scart of him becaus he can swear so. i aint scart of him. + +Jan. 31. Rany. not mutch but sum. we was playing snap the whip today and +Johnny Kelly was on the end and got snaped rite into a pudel of water +and he said i dident hold on and he wood give me a slap in the mug and i +said he want man enuf and jest then the bell rang and we had to go in. +tomorow he had beter look out i am going to give him one in the eye and +then grab for the under hold and get him down and lam him good. i bet he +cant fite enny beter then Ti Crummet did, and when i have licked him all +the fellers will be afrade of me. i bet he will wish he had never fit +with me. + +Feb. 1. Brite and Fair. i have got a black eye. this morning i went to +school erly and when i got there Johnny Kelly was there and he said now +old Plupy longlegs i will fix you and i said pile rite in and we will +see and he began to swear wirse then Ti did, and i said if you want a +good paist in the gob they is plenty of them rite here if you are man +enuf to sale in, and when i said that he come at me so quick that i +dident have time to get ready and he hit me in the eye and in the mouth +2 times and got the underhold before i cood and got me down and lammed +me till i hollered enuf. then all the fellers holered Plupy got licked +Plupy has got a black eye. it was prety mean ennyway. when i got home to +dinner mother asked me how i got my eye sore and i said i got it boxing +with Johnny Kelly and she said was you fiteing and i said we box every +day in school sometimes Beany and Whack and sometimes me and Pewt but +today me and Johnny Kelly boxed and he hits to hard and she said she +shood think so, and said i had beter box with sum other boy and i gess +so two. ennyway i dident lie to her for that wasent lying. + +Feb. 2. Brite and fair. i gave Johnny Kelly the core of my apple today. +Gosh sum fellers can fite auful and swear auful two. + +Feb. 3. Brite and fair. Beany has got a new blew jacket. he felt prety +big about it until Pewt took him in the back with a roten apple. Beany +staid in all resess a scraping the apple off of his coat. this afternoon +he wore his old jacket. but he is going to pay Pewt for that sum way. + +Feb. 4. it snowed hard all day all the fellers are whacking cats head on +each others back. you take some chork and chork the inside of your hand +and your ferst and last finger and then you wet your fingers and make +eyes and nose and mouth in your chorky hand and then you wate til a +feller comes along and then you lam him one on the back and it makes the +funniest cats head on his back you ever see with eyes and nose and mouth +and 2 long ears whitch your fingers made. i got 5 on my back today and i +got 1 on Beany and 2 on Pewt and 1 on Pop Clark and 1 on Nipper Brown. + +Feb. 5. it snowed this morning and we dident go to church i dug some +paths and read Billy Bowlegs in the afternoon, after super it snowed +again and is snowing now. i bet they will be some deep drifts tomorow. + +Feb. 6. brite and fair. it has cleared off. everything was jest as white +and they wasent hardly a track in the snow. i had to dig sum paths, and +i got up erly and dug a path down the frunt steps and out to the road so +father cood get into the hack. Jo Parmer said it was prety tuf slaying. +my Hoppy Gad boots have been greesed and they dont leak a bit. me and +Pewt and Beany had sum fun diving. we tide scarfs round our heds and +necks and div from our steps into a snow drift. and we cood go in way +out of sight. we tide our britches down over our boots, it was more fun +than diving in the river. after we div one drift all down we tride +another, and bimeby Beany he said come on fellers here is a buly drift +down by the shed and we went down and Beany said i chuse first dive and +he clim up on the shed and said 1 to make ready, 2 to prepare, 3 to be +going and 4 to be there, and then he div rite into the swill bucket. it +was under the snow and Beany coodent see it, and when he came up he was +all swill and he was mad and said i knew it all the time, and he went +home and aint going to ever speak to me enny more. i coodent see the old +bucket enny more than he cood. it is jest like Beany to get mad at every +little thing. i bet he wood laff if i div in the swill bucket. + +Feb. 7. Brite and fair. Beany woodent speek to me today. all rite Beany +you jest wait and see. + +Feb. 8. Brite and fair. it was buly snowballing. we was pluging +stewdcats today and Pacer Gooch came along. so we got behind trees and +Pewt peeked jest in time to get one rite in the eye. he had aught to +know beter than peek out when Pacer is pluging snowballs. + +Feb. 9. me and Fatty Melcher are making some arrow rifles down to his +shop. we are going hunting for rabbits saterday. brite and fair. + +Feb. 10. brite and fair. tonite father brougt a magasine home tonite. it +is the young folks. we all wanted it so we took turns. ferst Cele read a +story and then i read a story and then Keene, we all read it out loud. +Cele read amung the glass blowers. Keene read the story of a bad boy. +and i read around the evening lamp. they was all buly stories. + +Feb. 11, 186- this afternoon me and Fatty Melcher and Potter Goram went +hunting. we had our arrow rifles and Fatty had a ax and Potter a hachet +in his belt and i had a nife. we had a buly time. we went up to the eddy +and then went across the river on Gilmans side. we saw 2 patriges and 1 +rabbit and some blewgays. we dident hit them but we came prety near +them. then we bilt a fire and et our donnuts and then we tracked a +rabbit into a pile of bushes. when we turned over a log we scart out a +field mouse and killed it. tonite Potter came down to the house and we +read young yagers. + +Feb. 12. it raned hard all day. Keene and Cele had to go to church and +so i had to go two. they wasent many there. it ranes now. + +Feb. 13. it raned hard all nite. i cood hear it agenst the window and +hear the wind blow. it is comfertible to be in bed and hear the rane. +only i forgot my kindlings and i had to get up before six oh clock this +morning. + +Feb. 14. Beany nearly got killed today. he was spliting wood with his +new ax and he was standing rite under a closeline. Beany feels prety big +about his new ax and he had got so that he can grunt jest like men who +chop wood all the time. so Beany he swung the ax over his head and it +hit the closeline and bounced rite up in the air and came rite down on +Beanys head and he fell down whack and laid there till his father came +out and lugged him into the house. they thought he was ded but he +wasent. I went over today to see him, he was setting in a rocking chair +by the stove with his head rapped up in a towel. i sent Beany a +valentine today. he dident send me one but i gess it was because he was +sick. + +Feb. 15. brite and fair. Beany is better today. i went over and split +his kindlings for him. + +Feb. 16. brite and fair and buly snowballing. Gimmy Watson, Beanys +brother said if Beanys head hadent been jest like the choping block it +wood have killed him. Gimmy is mad becaus Beany calls him Gami. He can +lick Beany alone and can lick me alone but me and Beany together can +lick him. + +Feb. 17. they was a fire down on franklin street today and Bob Carter +got all squirted over and his close frose to the ladder he was on. + +Feb. 18, 186- it snowed today, and then it raned. + +Feb. 19. we have vacation in about 2 weeks. + +Feb. 20. i shall be glad when spring comes. i wet my feet most every +day. + +Feb. 21. we are going to have a school xibision at the end of this tirm +and old Francis says he is going to give prises to the best scholars. +Nipper and Pricilla and all the other good boys are studying hard so as +to get the prises. i woodent take one of their prises if they wood give +me one. i woodent give 2 cents for their old prises. + +Feb. 22. today is Washington's berthday and we can ring the town bell at +1 oh clock and at 5 for a hour. i went down both times and Ed Derbon let +us take turns in ringing the bell. only 2 can ring at a time. when me +and Fatty Melcher was ringing the bell went over and it pulled us way +up to the ceeling. most of the fellers staid out in frunt of the church +and pluged snowballs. bimeby some stewdcats came along and we pluged and +hit a stewdcat named Lee rite in the back of his head and he said we +have stood enuf from these townies and he and Stone and Clifford and +Winsor, who was our sunday school teacher until he saw the rooster fite, +and Belmont came over the fence and charged us and we pluged as hard as +we cood and they pluged two and we ran behind the church and they +follered us and jest lammed us and washed Beanys face and rolled Pewt in +the wet snow, and jest then Boog and Whack and Puz and Zee Smith came +piling in and paisted time out of them and then the stewdcats charged +them and throwed Whack in a drift and Zee got one in the back that made +him lay down and grunt before he cood get his breth, and then all the +stewdcats from Toles house piled out and piched in and they was giving +us time when Bozzaris Wadly see the fite and jumped of a load of wood +and Pacer and Stuby Gooch and Scotty Briggam and Kibo Marston and Skinny +Bruce and Frank Elliott herd us hollering give it to the stewdcats and +came running over and then we had jest a buly fite and i tell you the +snow balls jest flew and Fatty Gilman got one rite in the eye and Pheby +Talor got one rite in the mouth jest as he was hollering stewdcat and it +filled his mouth with snow and old Woodbrige Odlin was coming out of the +bank and he got one in the leg and one in his old plug hat and it nocked +it of and he went over to the hotel and i gess he told old Brown becaus +he and Swane and Potsy Dirgin the poliseman came over and made us stop, +it was the best snow ball fite i ever saw. we are going to lay for the +stewdcats next saterday at the libary. old Bozzaris Wadly was the best +fiter we had and nobody knowed he cood fite. when the stewdcats wood +charge us he wood not run a bit but wood jest stand and plug and once +when Clifford tride to put him over he coodent do it. it was a buly +fite. + +Feb. 23. Brite and fair. Gosh what do you think i am going to get a +prise in school. last nite i had to go down to old Tom Connors store to +get some carosene and old Francis was going down town with Perry Molton +and they was talking about who was the best fellers in school and who +they was going to give the prises. i lissened and old Francis said +Potter and Nipper and Pricilla was going to have prises, only he dident +call them Potter and Nipper and Pricilla, but Arthur and Jonny and +Charlie, then he said they is one boy who is as smart as enny of them +only he dont study much and i had to shake him up laitly and he is doing +better now, then Perry he said who is it, and old Francis said i gess i +wont tell you his name for he may disapoint me, but he lives on Court +Street. i tell you it made me feel all tremly. it coodent be Pewt or +Beany becaus they miss there lesons most every day and they aint enny +other fellers living on Court Street so it must be me, becaus old +Francis shook me and Medo Thirsten up day before yesterday and Medo +lives on South Street. Gosh wont father be sirprized i nearly got a +prise once when Fliperty Flannygan marked my words all rite and i wood +have got it if it hadent been for Gimmy Fitsgerald. but this time i am +going to get it. i bet the folks will think i am quite a feller. + +Feb. 24. Brite and fair. i dident miss in school today. tonite i staid +in and studied. Pewt and Beany come round and were mad becaus i woodent +come out. + +Feb. 25. Rany. i got 9 xamples rite today out of 10, but i missed in +speling. it aint often i miss in speling. + +Feb. 26. i took a book today to church and studied. + +Feb. 27. Rany again. i dident miss in ennything today. i told mother +today that i was going to get a prise if i dident disapoint him. so she +told father tonite and he said he dident beleive it. he said he had +nearly a buchel of prises he got in school and he give them to the +fellers to ware in a torchlite percession and they kept them. he said he +give all his prise books to the sunday school. he said when he put on +all his meddles and walked out they gingled jest like slaybells and +glitered so they scart horses. aunt Sarah laffed and said the only +prises he wore were black and blew ruler marks that old mister Ellis +give him and he got enuf of them to, and she said tell Harry what you +left the Academy for, and he said the teachers were down on him becaus +he lerned faster than they cood teech, and aunt Sarah said Doctor Sole +wood tell a diferent story, and father said that Doctor Sole was a +wirthy man but he dident forgive ennyone which was smarter than he was. +then father said you talk very strangly Sarah for one of your years and +i shall ask the Coart to apoint me as gardeen over you as a person of +unsound mind. then father said he had never told ennyone why he left the +Academy so suddin, but it was becaus he broak his jaw in 3 places +talking Greke to Doctor Sole. well he kept us laffing all the evening +and when i went to bed he give me 10 cents so i gess he feels prety good +about my prise. + +Feb. 28. clowdy but no rane. i only missed in Geogerfy today. Aunt Sarah +is going to exibision day to see me get my prise. Keene and Cele are +going two. i dont dass to tell Beany. he come over tonite to get me to +come out and see him set his dog onto Mister Heads cat and was mad when +i told him i had got to study. Beany he says i will get so i cant fite +or have enny fun i am geting so good. Beany will get a good punch if he +says much. + +Mar. 1, 186- brite and fair. father is going to the school exibision. + +Mar. 2. Brite and fair. tonite father lerned me a speach to say when old +Francis gives me the prise. i dont want to say it but he says i have got +to. this is my speach. Mister Francis i thank you very kindly for this +beautiful present, whitch i value for the honor whitch has been confered +on me, and i trust that i shall so conduck myself that you may never +regret it. + +Mar. 3. Brite and fair. tomorow is exibision day. today we rehersed. +Pricilla sung pulling hard agenst the streem and played the organ. +Potter read a composition and Nipper xplaned the sum about the hundred +geese the one i never cood do. Good morow farmer with your hundred geese +sir i have not a hundred but if i had as many more and half as many more +and 2-1/2 geese i shood have a hundred, how many geese had he. well +Nipper can do that sum and so he has got to show of. i havent got to do +ennything xcept to say my speach when old Francis gives me my prise, +whitch is prety good for me. + +Mar. 4. Brite and fair. i am not fealing very well tonite. father dident +go to boston this morning but staid to home. this morning in school we +rehersed for xibision. Pricilla sung and plaid and Nipper rote down the +geese sum on the blackboard and rote his name under it jest as good as +he cood. i wanted to rite Nipper under it but old Francis wood paist +time out of me if he found out who rote it. you aught to hear Pricil +play and sing. he sings do your best for one another making life a +plesent dream, help a poor and weried brother puling hard agenst the +streem, and the old organ goes boom ya, boom ya, boom ya ya ya, that is +a prety song for a feller to sing whitch never will give the fellers the +core of his apple but always eats it hisself. well this afternoon i put +on my best close and my plad neckti and a new paper coller and went to +school erly. prety soon the people begun to come in. they was old Perry +Molton and old Nat Shute and Gewett Swazie the committy, and old Bil +Morrill with his hair curled under behind and Chick Chickerings father +and mother and docter Goram, Nippers father and mother and Pricillas +father and mother and lots of people and i thought father wasent coming +but bimeby he come in with his new britches that he made Erl and Cutts +give him and his boots blacked and aunt Sarah and Keene and Cele. Aunt +Sarah had got her best earings and her dolman with beeds and Keene and +Cele had on their bronze boots and there plad dresses and they got a +seet on the platform. Keene and Cele felt prety big becaus they was in +the seminary and Aunt Sarah felt prety big becaus she had on her earings +and her dolman and father felt prety big becaus i was going to get a +prise. well first old Francis said a prayer and everyone bowed there +heads and father bowed his two but i saw him peek out under his hand. +well then we all sung and Mary Emery plaid the organ. then our class +resited and Nipper xplained his sum about the geese and then Potter +spoke a peace and then Pricilla plaid and sung his peace. then there was +a dialog and then we sung sum more. then old Francis opened his desk and +took out a little riting desk and said it had been prety hard to tell +whitch was the best scolar becaus they was 3 boys who were so near +together. so he would give the riting desk to Arthur Goram and the glass +inkstand to Johnny Brown and the stamp colecters book to Charly Hobbs. +so when he give them Potter and Nipper and Pricilla stood up and bowd +and said thank you. if they had been so smart they aught to have a +speach ready. ennyway i had my speach all ready. then old Francis said +there was one boy who had grate talents and was a very brite boy but +owing to his fondness for play had not done as well as he shood. but he +had showed such talent that he aught to be menshioned espesially as he +had been studying much better laitly. when old Francis said that aunt +Sarah and Keene and Cele set up strate and father tride to look as if he +dident know who he meant and i said my speach over soft, to be sure i +had it rite. then old Francis said i have selected as a present for this +boy a book, and the name of this boy is, and then he stoped a moment and +i cood almost hear my heart thumping, and then he said Johnny +Chickering. Gosh i had forgotten all about Chick Chickering living on +Coart Street. when he said that aunt Sarah and Keene and Cele sat rite +back in there chairs and father turned auful red and looked at me as if +he wanted to nock my head rite of and then he droped his hat on the +floor and it fell of the platform and roled way out under Medo +Thirstons seet and then he blew his nose with a auful toot. then old +Francis give Chick the book and then he read the names of the 10 next +best scolars and my name wasent there eether. and then father looked mad +enuf to bust, and Aunt Sarah and Keene and Cele looked prety sick. then +we all sung happy school Ah from the never shall our hearts long time be +turning, and then school was dismissed. docter Goram and Nippers father +and mother and Pricillas father and mother and Chicks father and mother +and lots of the people staid to shake hands with old Francis, but father +marched rite out and Aunt Sarah and the girls two. well when i got home +you aught to have heard father. he said i was the laziest and most +wirthless boy there ever was, and i was a disgrace to him and he sent me +to bed lively. i dident want the old book ennyway. + +Mar. 5. Church today. i dont care. + +Mar. 6. Brite and fair. Chick feals prety big about his old book. Ed +Tole has got a new game rooster. we are going to throw him over in John +Adams yard the first time John lets his bolton gray out. i rode on the +hack today all the morning. it is more fun then geting good marks in +school. ennyway it is vacation and i am going to raise time. i dont care +for a old prise ennyway. + +Mar. 7. Brite and fair. i broak a window today on purpose, i dont care. + +Mar. 8. Brite and fair. got sent to bed tonite for swearing. all i said +was gol darn it. father needent feel so big. i have herd him say wirse +things than that. i dont care. + +Mar. 9. clowdy but no rane. i dont care if i dident get no prise. Chick +needent feel so big. i woodent take his old book ennyway. + +Mar. 10. brite and fair. i got fiting with Beany today in his yard. he +chased me over to my yard and i turned round suddin and stuck out my +arm and my fist hit Beany rite in the eye. you had aught to herd him +howl. then mother called me in and sent me to bed. it is prety tuf when +a feller cant hit another feller in the eye whitch is chasing him. well +ennyway i stamped upstairs to bed and when father came home i knew i +shood get a licking. so when father came home i lissened and herd them +eating super, and i herd father say where is that boy and mother said i +sent him to bed for striking Elly Watson. Elly is Beany you know. and +father said whitch licked. and mother said Elly was crying very loud and +holding on to his eye, and so i sent Harry to bed and father said if he +dident do ennything wirse than licking that Watson boy i wont complane +and if he will get up spunk enuf to lick that boy of Brad Puringtons, he +ment Pewt, i will give him a treet. then mother said i dont know what is +the matter with Harry this vacation. he is cross and impident, and then +Keene said i slaped her face yesterday and Cele told Keene it was her +falt and she hadent aught to have plaged me, and Keene said she dident +and Cele said she did and father said you girls shet up when your mother +is talking. then someone shet the door and i dident hear enny more. +after super Cele come up in my room with a tray with my super and i set +up in bed and et my super and Keene looked into the room and made up a +face. after super i heard father talking again and he said i needed a +good licking and mother said something was the matter with me and she +never knew me to keep cross for a hole week, and father said he wood +take it out of me in 2 minits and mother said no she wood talk to me. So +bimeby mother come up and i made beleeve i was asleep and mother set +down by the bed and said are you asleep Harry, and i said yes before i +thought, and then she sorter laffed and began to talk to me and told me +how sory it made her feel to see me so cross and doing bad things and +she wanted me to be better and not wurry her for she dident feel very +well and gosh before i knew it i was balling rite out. well i balled +good and she rubed my head and got me a drink of water and i said i wood +do beter. then she kissed me and went down and after a while i went to +sleep. gosh i maid up my mind if father licked me that i woodent ball +and i wood do something auful the next day, i wont say what it was but +it was something auful. i have been a prety mean feller. + +Mar. 11, 186- when i got up this morning i felt buly, and i got a pail +of water and brogt in wood enuf to fill the woodbox way over the top. it +is warm and the snow is all gone xcept in the corners where the drifts +were. i saw a robin today and i wished on it but i cant tell what i +wished becaus if i did it woodent come true. it is something i have been +wanting auful for a long time, but i havent had money enuf to buy it. + +Mar. 12. rany. i went to church. the minister said it was esy to be good +if you tride. i gess ministers dont know much ennyway. + +Mar. 13. me and Beany is going to keep store in my shed. today we made +the counter of 2 barils and a board and we made a lot of flyboxes and +jacobs laders and tonite we made a lot of sweet firn cigars, and hayseed +and mulen leaf and cornsilk. this afternoon we went out picking up bones +in a baskit. most every yard had a lot of bones in it xcept where the +fellers had been. we got most a buchel. we get half a cent a pound for +them down to old Gechels store they make nife handels of them and perl +buttons. + +Mar. 14. Beany got mad today and says he wont keep store with me. we got +our flyboxes all pined up and our boxes of cigars all ready and mother +said she wood give me some molases for sweatened water. so we was all +ready when Beany got mad about the sine. he wanted it to be Watson and +Shute becaus he is older then me, but it was my shed and my sweatened +water and my board and my barils and so i said my name shood come ferst +and he got mad and took half of the things and went home. i dident let +him have a bit of the sweatened water. Lucy Watson was mad two and +woodent speek to Keene and Cele. + +Mar. 15, 186- i opened my store today and nailed up my sine fancy goods +and sweatened water H. Shute. Potter and Whack and Fatty and Boog and +Puzzy and all the fellers come round and i sold lots of stuff. i charge +10 nails for a sweet firn cigar, 5 nails for a rattan or grape vine +cigar and 3 nails for hayseed cornsilk and mullen leaf. 3 nails for +white jacobs ladders and 5 for gilt, 10 nails for flyboxes made of +writing book paper, and 15 and 20 nails for gilt and silver and red +paper. 15 nails for snappers that will snap good, and 15 nails for a +glass of sweatened water. i had a big trade and i cood see Beany out in +frunt of his house looking over. bimeby he came over and i said hullo +Beany come and have a drink and a cigar. so Beany he took a glass and +drunk it and lit a cigar, a sweet firn one and said how is trade, and i +said they is quite a little stiring, and he said have you got mutch +stock and i said most sold out but they is plenty more where that come +from and Beany he said dont you want to by my stuff and i said no i gess +not. bimeby Beany he said less make up Plupy and i said i aint mad and +Beany he said well let the old sine rip and so he went over and got his +stuff and pinned it up and we had a good trade all the afternoon. tonite +we made cigars and flyboxes and snappers. Beany is a prety good feller +to have a store with only he smokes and drinks two mutch. + +Mar. 16. Brite and fair. i saw a blewbird today. Beany come over erly +and we had a good trade. Beany smoked so many sweet firn cigars and +drank so mutch sweatened water that i told him he coodent be my pardner +unless he smoked cheeper cigars and only drank 4 glasses a day. 2 in the +morning and 2 in the evening. that is enuf for enny man. + +Mar. 17. Rany today. not mutch trade. Pewt and Nipper has got a store in +Pewts shed. Tomtit says he has got beter things than we have and he got +all the fellers to go up there. Tomtit was mad becaus we woodent take +sheet iron for pay. you cant get ennything for sheet iron down to old +Getchels and if we took it for pay enny feller cood go out and pick up a +old stove pipe and buy out your store. + +Mar. 18. brite and fair. no i mean it is clowdy. Beany is acting prety +queer. he has been talking with Pewt, and last nite he promised to come +over and make cigars and he dident come and Nipper said Beany was over +to Pewts. today he was prety sassy and said he would drink all the +sweatened water he wanted. he was away all the afternoon. + +Mar. 19. Beany dident make up enny faces behind the organ today. after +church i holered at him and he woodent look round. i bet he is going to +keep store with Pewt. i dont care. + +Mar. 20. Beany came over this morning and said he was going to be +pardner with Pewt and he wanted his stuff and his half of the iron and +nails. I told him he was a mean cuss and he said he woodent be pardner +with a feller whitch woodent let him drink and smoke out of the store. +he said Pewt wasent so mean as all that. so we divided the stuff and +Beany wanted half of what nails and iron i had taken before we were +pardners. he dident get it you bet, and he dident get enny sweatened +water neether. + +Mar. 21. brite and fair. Medo Thirsten came up today and wanted to buy +my stuff and i sold it all to him. i am glad to get out of the store so +i can go of with Potter and Chick Chickering. we went up to the Eddy +today. we saw some blackbirds and some robins and 3 blewbirds, and got 2 +last years nests. it is almost time for flying squerels. we saw a redder +today. + +Mar. 22. I saw Beany today and he run out his tung at me. all rite for +you Beany. + +Mar. 23. it raned and was auful windy today. i sold my iron and bones +today to old Getchel for 42 cents. i took out 12 cents to treet the +fellers and put 30 cents with my cornet money. + +Mar. 24. it was warm today and fine. I saw some wild geese flying over +today. it made me feel funny to hear them holler. me and Potter and +Chick went out in the woods today with our bows and arrows and bilt a +fire and fride some potatose. + +Mar. 25. this is the last day of vacation. Beany and Pewt have had a +auful row, Beany says Pewt sold all the iron and nails and kept most of +the money. Pewt says Beany drank up more then the moneys wirth of +sweatened water and smoked all the best cigars i am glad of it. i gess +the next time Beany will know more. + +Mar. 26. sunday. nothing to do but go to church and think of going to +school tomorow. i wonder if i shall get a licking this tirm. + +Mar. 27. i went to school today. they isent much fun now. it is two +muddy to play ennything. so the fellers all have clappers and we clap +all the time. Skinny Bruce is the best one. he has some bone clappers +that jest ring. Fatty Gilman has got some made of black walnut. + +Mar. 28. we plaid ball a little today. it is geting prety dry in the +school yard now. + +Mar. 29. it snowed a little today and then melted. they wasent enuf for +snow balling. my hens has begun to lay. + +Mar. 30. the top of my roosters comb whitch was frose last winter when i +was sick has come of and his comb is all smooth and shiny and hasent +got enny picks on it. + +Mar. 31. brite and fair tomorow is april fool day. i am going to get one +on Beany. + +Apr. 1. today i had a good one to get on Beany. i rung the doorbell of +our house and mother came to the door and i stood there laffin and she +laffed and said i am glad to see you sir because i want you to fill the +woodbox and get me 5 pails of water. gosh i dident think it was so +funny. at school old Francis woodent let us play april fools on each +other but in the afternoon i went over to get Beany to come with me to +get a 4 foot yardstick down to Lyfords. i was going to get Beany to ask +for it and then they wood lam him, becaus they isent enny 4 foot +yardstick. i jest laffed to think of Beany getting licked. well when i +asked Beany he said he wood go only his father wanted him to go down to +old Kellogs harness shop to get a pint of strap oil to oil some harnes, +and if i wood go with him ferst he would go with me. so i said yes and +we went. jest before we got there Beany said you go in and ask for it, +and i will wait becaus old Kellog dont like me very well. so i went in +and old Kellog was sitting straddle of a seet with big wooden nippers on +it and he was sowing on a harness and he said cross like what do you +want and i said i want a pint of strap oil and he said o yes i have got +some good strap oil and he got down and grabed me by the coller and took +down a strap and licked me till i hollered. then he let me go and when i +went out rubing my legs Beany was jest laffing fit to die and he said +you thought you was prety smart old Plupy to get me to go down for a 4 +foot yard stick dident you. and then he ran his tung out and run of down +town. i will pay Beany for that. + +Apr. 2. brite and fair. i went to church. + +Apr. 3. Father is going to have a garden and i have got to dig it up. +Father says he is going to help me but i know how it will be. he will +dig about ten minits and then he will go over to see Beanys father. i +dont see why it is that jest as soon as it is time for fishing father +wants to make me wirk. Pewt cought 3 pirch today. + +Apr. 4. Brite and fair. last nite we went diging up the garden. father +began to dig and dug about a minit and then he stoped and went in the +house to change his shues, and then he come out and took of his coat and +then he dug a nother minit and then he went to the fence and talked with +Sam Dire and then he took of his vest and took up his spade and then he +said i was doing splendid and he wanted to see Wats a minit and he went +over to see Beanys father jest as i said he wood and dident come back. +well i dug until mother called me in to go to bed and i got about a pan +full of wirms. tonite me and father are going to dig some more. my back +is lame. + +Apr. 5. Brite and fair. last nite father told me to cut the eyes out of +a lot of potatose to plant. so this noon and after school me and Keene +and Cele cut out the eyes of the potatose. we raced to see which wood +beet, i had a sharp spoon handel, Keene a darning needle, and Cele a +pen-nife. we had 3 cups to put the eyes in and when we got the eyes all +dug out we counted the eyes. Cele had 176 Keene 158 and i had 143. jest +as we got done father came home, so we showed him the eyes and i wish +you cood see him. i woodent dare to wright what he said. if i talked +like he did he wood have sent me to bed for a year. i gess he wood have +licked us all but mother laffed and laffed and said we dident know enuf +about farming. so we only got sent to bed. + +Apr. 6. brite and fair. i hoped it wood rane today so we coodent dig. +but it dident. if they had been a circus it wood have raned like time. +last nite we dug some more. father started all rite but jest then he +said he had got to go down town with mother. so i dug until Beany and +Pewt came over and then we begun to plug peaces of dirt at Charly Dire +and after a while somebody broke a window in Sam Dires house. Pewt said +it was me and Beany said it was Pewt. father came home and sent me to +bed. he give Sam Dire 25 cents for the window. ennyway Pewt broke it. + +Apr. 7. brite and fair. + +Apr. 8, 186- it raned today. i am glad of it. + +Apr. 9. it raned today. i am glad of it. i went to church. + +Apr. 10. tonite me and Beany and Whack finished diging all the rest of +the garden. when father came home he went out and steped on a rake that +was lying down with the sharp points up and ran it into his foot and he +came limping into the house swaring auful, but he wasent much hurt and +isent going to have enny garden. ennyway he left the rake there himself. + +Apr. 11, 186- Brite and fair. father is going to have some geese. he +went to Dal Gilmors and Dal said you cood keep geese for nothing becaus +all they et was grass and father says he can raise geese on grass until +October and then kill them and sell them and make lots of money. ennyway +they was grass enuf becaus we want going to have enny garden since +father steped on the rake. Dal Gilmor has got a old goose whitch is more +then 30 years old. i bet he is tuf. + +Apr. 12. Brite and fair. father came home tonite erly and we begun to +make a geese pond. we took a baril and cut it in 2 and made 2 tubs. then +we dug a hole in the garden and put in 1 tub and filled it with water. +it made a buly pond. next saterday father is coming home erly and we are +going to hampton falls to get sum geese eggs. + +Apr. 13. Rany Franky fell out of bed last nite. father said it was my +falt. the baby had the crupe. father says something is always the +matter. + +Apr. 14. clowdy but no rane. beany has got a dog, it is black and tan, +not 2 dogs but jest 1. his name is Gip and he can fite. + +Apr. 15. still clowdy. Frank Hanes has got a dog like Beanys. his name +is Dime, i bet he can fite. + +Apr. 16. brite and fair. i put some minnies in the geese pond today. it +was after church and i got them yesterday. they wood have dide in the +tin pail, so it wasent rong to put them in Sunday. tomorow we are going +down to get the geese eggs. + +Apr. 17. brite and fair. i am wrighting this in bed. it has been a prety +tuf day i tell you. father coodent come home erly becaus he had to wirk, +so he give me fifty cents and me and Beany went down to hampton falls +after the geese eggs. well we got them and started home. we had Beanys +fathers horse and we saw a old black horse by the side of the road and +Beany said i wood like to plug him with a geese egg, i said praps they +is a roten egg there. so we shook the eggs till by and by they was one +whitch ratled. then Beany choze to plug him and he let ding at him and +the egg hit him a paister rite in the side and broak and spatered him +all over with yellow, and he kicked up and ran away before i cood get a +nother egg. then we went on till we saw 2 cows and we shook the eggs +again till we got 2 whitch ratled and when we went by we stood up in the +wagon and let ding at the cows. i hit one rite in the frunt of her head +and the yellow ran down over her nose and Beany hit the other in the +side and then a man holered at us and we licked the horse and drove of +lively. then we saw a cat sitting in a barn door and we both let ding at +her but dident hit her and both eggs smached agenst the barn and the +cat ran into the barn and a man came out with a tin pail in his hand and +a little stool in the other and holered at us and we licked up the horse +again. after that we dident plug enny more for they was only 7 eggs left +and they only ratled a little. when we got home Beany let me out and i +told father about the eggs being roten, he was prety mad and said i had +aught to have shook them before i took them. he asked me what i did with +the roten eggs and i said i threw them away and jest then Mister Watson +Beanys father came over with Beany and 2 men and it was the same man +whose horse we pluged with roten eggs, and the man who holered at us +when we plugged the old cows. the man grabed me by the coller and told +father i was the wirst boy in the town and if father dident lick me out +of my skin he wood, and father said hold on there, they aint nobody +going to lick my boy unless he licks me ferst, and he walked up to the +man prety quick, and the man let go my coller and father said if they is +any licking to be done i can do all that is necesary, and the man said +we are going to have him arested, and father said what has he done and +the man said these two boys have been throwing rocks at my horse and +have cut a big gash in his side and he is all over blud, and the other +man said we had been pluging rocks at his cows and had cut one on the +head and one on the side well me and Beany said we only threw geese eggs +at them and the blud was the runny part of the eggs and we crossed our +throtes and hoped to die if it wasent so, and father said to the man did +you xamine the gash and he said he was so mad when he see the horse that +he hitched up the other horse and followed us and told his hired man to +look after the horse and brogt the other man to. so father said to +Beanys father to hich up his horse and we wood go down and see if we +had lied to him and he said if i had lied to him he wood give me the +wirst licking i ever had. well jest as we were going to get in the wagon +the man whitch had the tin pail and the stool in his hand come driving +up and said we had been pluging roten eggs at his barn and father said +he wood be cussed if he ever saw such boys, and me and Beany said we +dident mean to hit the barn but we pluged at the cat and dident hit her. +then the other men told him about the horse and cows and he said it was +only roten eggs and then they felt beter, and they said they was willing +to let us of with a good licking, but father said he woodent lick me for +ennybody else, but he wood pay them for their truble and they said they +wood settle for fifty cents each and i had to pay it out of my cornet +money. i only had one dollar and 30 cents but Aunt Sarah give me 20 +cents. i beleive i had rather got a licking for it will take me 6 weaks +to ern so much money and i wood have got over a licking as soon as i +got to sleep. then father sent me to bed. i wonder if Beanys father +licked him. i shall know tomorow. + +Apr. 18. Brite and fair. Beany dident get licked. + +Apr. 19. Brite and fair. i bet father cood have licked those 3 hampton +falls men together easy. + +Apr. 20. Brite and fair. i shall never get that cornet. + +Apr. 21. i had some fun today. they wasent enny school today becaus old +Francis had to go to a funeral or something. so i bilt a nest for my +hens. + +Apr. 22. Brite and fair. father aint going to have enny geese. tonite we +got a old yellow hen of Sam Dire and set her on 7 eggs in the +horse-stal, and then we had super. nothing hapened at super xcept that +Keene got sent to bed for sticking out her tung at father when she +thought he wasent looking but he was, becaus he woodent let her go over +to see Lucy Watson Beanys sisters new hat. well after it was dark father +said i forgot to pay Sam for his hen and he started rite acros the +garden to go over to Sam Diars and it was dark and i herd a auful splash +and thumping round and feerful swaring and i knew father was in the +geese pond. i woodent dass to wright down what he said, if i had said +what he did he wood have sent me to bed for a year. well he came limping +home and swaring into the house and he made me get a lanten and we went +out to the barn and he took the old hen by her hind legs and swung her +round jest as we fellers do when we plug apples on a stick and pluged +her way over in Sam Diars yard and then he took the eggs and pluged them +as far as he cood and told me to fill up the pond tomorow or he wood +lick me. then we went in and mother and aunt Sarah nearly killed +themselves laffin and father said i spose you wood laff if i killed +myself and when i went up to bed i laffed easy and Keene and Cele were +laffing under the bed close. bimeby i herd father laffin and then we all +laffed loud. jest think i had to pay a dollar and a half of my cornet +money for pluging 5 eggs and father pluged 7 eggs and a old hen and +dident have to pay ennything, ennyway it was fun to see him. + +Apr. 23. Brite and fair. i filled up the geese pond. it was sunday but +it was after dark. + +Apr. 24. Brite and fair. when father came home i told him i had filled +up the geese pond and he asked me where the tub was and when i said i +had filled it up he said i was a loonatic and dident know enuf to go in +when it raned. so he made me dig out the tub and fill in the hole. i +tell you i have to wirk prety hard. + +Apr. 25. Brite and fair. today old man Thirsten Medos father came to the +house and told mother someone had pluged roten eggs at his barn. mother +dident know what to say for a minit for she dident want to tell about +fathers falling into the geese pond, so she said she was very sure i +hadent done it but she wood speak to father about it, so when father got +home old man Thirsten came up to the house and said George that cussid +boy of yours has been pluging roten eggs at my barn and father said this +time Kimball, his name is Kimball, he dident do it for he was with me +all the evening til he went to bed. so father and old man Thirsten went +down to see the barn and it was all spatered with yellow. then old man +Thirsten said he wood give a dolar to know who the scowndril was whitch +pluged those eggs, and father said i wish you cood Kimball, it is a +outrage, and father looked auful funny, jest as he did when he scart old +Ike Shute that time on the high school steps. when we went home father +kept laffing, and when he told mother she said it was a shame and he +aught to make it rite with him, and so father bought a sawhoss of him, +he sells sawhosses, and i have got to use it. somehow i always get the +wirst of it. + +Apr. 26, 186- it raned like time last nite but it was brite and fair +when i got up. what do you think, me and Beany are going to by a horse +of old Nat Mason. he lives down Stratam road and he has a old troter +that can go like time. + +Apr. 27. brite and fair. me and Beany saw old Nat today. we aint got +enny chink. if i hadent paid that money to those hampton falls men for +pluging roten eggs at there cows i should have sum. all i can rase is +thirty five cents and Beany can rase fifteen cents. Fatty Gilman most +always has lots of chink. + +Apr. 28. me and Beany saw Fatty today. he wants to go in with us becaus +he says his folks want to use old Chub so mutch that he dont get enny +chance to use him. but Fatty he hasent got enny chink eether. enny way +we are going to see old Nat tomorrow and peraps he will let us have it +on tick. + +Apr. 29. brite and fair. today was saterday and this afternoon me and +Beany and Fatty went down to see old Nat. he was in a old house smoking +a old pipe made out of a corn cob. so Fatty he asked him to show us his +old plug, only Fatty dident say old plug but said Mister Mason can we +see your troting horse, and old Nat he got up and went to a little barn +and opened the door and holered get up lady Clara and she tride to get +up and coodent, and old Nat swoar and kicked her and then she coodent +get up, and then he clim over her and puled her head up into the rack +and then he took a stick and hit her sum more and swoar sum more and +then she got up. then Beany he asked old Nat what made her not get up +and he said that troting horses most never laid down more than once or +twict a weak and sum of the best troters never laid down. he said Dexter +and Flora Tempel never was knowed to lay down. then Fatty asked him to +let us see her trot and he hiched her into a buggy and we set on the +fence and old Nat he drove of most walking. bimeby we herd the old wagon +ratling and old Nat he came down the street just fluking. I never saw a +horse go so fast. i tell you old Nat he had to pull to stop her. she +breethed prety hard and jerky, but Nat he said it was hickups becaus she +had et too mutch. Fatty he asked how old she was and old Nat he said she +was bout 12 but that she wood be good til she was 30. Then we asked how +mutch he wood sell her for and he said he wanted 5 dolers for her but he +wood let us have her for 2 dolars and fifty cents and we could have the +wagon for 2 dolars and fifty cents two, and he wood throw in the harnes. +but we dident have the money and so we tride to swap and bimeby he said +if i wood give him my gun and Fatty wood give him his silver pensil +case and Beany give him his 6 bladed nife he wood trust us for a month. +so we give him the things and he give us the horse. only we coodent take +her then becaus we have got to find a place to keep her. none of us dass +to tell our folks about it. we woodent let Fatty know about it if we +hadent suposed he had plenty of chink. + +Apr. 30. brite and fair. after church today we went round to see if we +cood get a place to keep our horse. we asked Noot Crumet but Noot he +said he dident have enny place to put her unles he give her his room and +he told us to go to Bucher Haly and see if we coodent get a chanse to +put her in his smoke house for we cood keep her longer there than enny +where else and so we went to him and he chased us out of his yard. then +we went to Charles Flanders but he dident have but one room and his shed +wasent big enuf to keep a gote, and then we went over to old Jethrow +Simpsons and Jethrow he said if we wood help him haul wood enuf to fill +his shed we cood keep her in his barn as long as we wanted to and have +enuf hay two. + +May 1. it was may day today and we dident have enny school. so me and +Beany went up to Fattys and got him and we went down to old Nats. We +wood have run all the way only Fatty got tukered out. When we got there +old Nat made us promise to give him a hat or a pair of old boots becaus +he kept lady Clara over Sunday. Fatty he said they was lots of old hats +at home and so we went way back and got a old tall bever hat and then +old Nat hiched up lady Clara and we piled in. Fatty he drove ferst +becaus he said we coodent have got her unless he had got the old tall +bever. so Fatty he drove up as fur as ass brook and then Beany he drove +as fur as the old brick meeting house and then i drove as fur as the +hall place where Jethrow lives. we all had to stand up when we drove +becaus the ranes is two short. when we got there old Jethrow was there +and he had a dingel cart and we hiched lady Clara into it and went up to +Jady Hill for sum wood. we wirked till 12 oh clock and then we run home +to dinner and run back agen. i took all the meal i had for my hens most +2 quarts and i fed her. it is Fattys tirn next to get meal for her. then +we wirked til six oh clock and we were allmost ded we were so tired. +well when we asked old Jethrow whitch stal we shood put her in he told +us to take our old plug and get out or he wood lick us. jest think of +that. well we dident know what to do. so we waited til most dark and +then Beany said we had beter go to the next house becaus they was a big +shed there. so i said i wood ring if Fatty wood ask and so i rung the +bell and a woman came to the door and Fatty told her all about it and +she said old Jethrow was a meen old skin flint and we cood put our horse +in her shed and cood keep her their as long as we wanted to. so she +give us a lantern and we went out and they was a buly place and we made +a stal with 2 boards and put a lot of saw dust under her and give her a +pale of water only we dident have enny hay. well bimeby Beany said that +he cood see the hay sticking out of the cracks in old Jethrows barn, and +we went over and looked and we cood see plenty of hay there. so Fatty he +said we had ernt that hay and we aught to have it, and Beany said so +two, and Fatty said he woodent steal ennything but this hay was ours and +we had ernt it. so Fatty and Beany puled out a board and held it open +while i puled out enuf hay and then we fed lady Clara and went home. +ennyway the hay was ours and it wasent stealing to take it. + +May 2. brite and fair. this morning i got up erly and went over to the +barn. Beany he was there and Fatty he came after i had got there. lady +Clara was laying down and woodent get up. i gess she was prety tired. +so we fed her and Fatty brogt some otes. so we curred her down as far as +we cood reech and brushed her and then we went home. at brekfast mother +asked me what made me smel so barny and i said i had been helping Fatty +curry his horse. at noon we fed her agen and tonite we got her up and +curred her other side. we dident drive her today. + +May 3. rany as time. we cant drive lady Clara today. we curred her 2 +times. + +May 4. tonite we drove lady Clara. We went down Newmarket road. we took +tirns driving. one of the wheals come of and we had to get out and walk +home holding on the wheal. + +May 5. Ed Adams give us a nut and we fixed the wheal. we had a ride +tonite. i tell you lady Clara can go. we beat Gim Lovering tonite. he +dident know who we was becaus it was two dark but we knowed him. we beat +him and then we waited for him to come up and then we beat him agen. we +did that 3 times, and Gim he was mad. + +May 6. my hens dont lay enny now. i gess i dont give them enuf to eat. +it is prety hard to keep a horse and hens two. we dident drive tonite +becaus it raned. it was brite and fair yesterday. + +May 7. today was sunday and we coodent drive lady Clara. tomorrow nite +we are going to lay for old man Churchil with his troter. i bet we can +beat him. + +May 8. i have missed in my lesons most every day, and so has Fatty and +Beany. today i swaped a hen for a buchel of meal for lady Clara. we +drove her tonite but we dident find ennyone to race. + +May 9. brite and fair. if Beany dont shell out more meal he wont drive +lady Clara agen. + +May 10. Beany got a peck of meal today at old Si Smiths. he charged it +to his father. + +May 11. we had a buly ride tonite we raced 4 fellers and beat them. + +May 12. brite and fair. tonite we coodent get lady Clara up. we are +going to try agen tomorrow and drive her in the day time. + +May 13. rany agen. we got lady Clara up this morning. Beany and Fatty +pulled in front and i licked behind. this afternoon one of our wheals +broak down. Ed Adams give us a nother wheal. it went on all rite only it +isent as big as the other wheals and it makes the wagon go one sided a +little. we had a good ride today. we have to be pretty careful in +tirning around a corner becaus the wagon is one sided. + +May 14. today was sunday. father told me if i smelt so of the barn he +woodent let me go up to Fattys agen. i bet he wood be mad if he knowed i +oned a horse. + +May 15. there was a fite in school today. i dont care mutch about fites +now. i had ruther race horses. tonite we raced with a big white horse +and beat him esy. we all had to pull on the ranes to stop lady Clara. + +May 16. brite and fair. Beany is behind 5 feeds and me and Fatty had to +make it up. last nite lady Clara lost a shue. so this morning before +school we walked every where we drove last nite and Beany found the shue +way down to long meter Dows on Hamton road. Beany he said if we wood +call it square about the feeds he wood get Gim Elerson to nale on the +shue. so we did and Beany got Gim to nale on the shue. Beany he raked up +Gims front yard to pay him. Beany is a prety good feller. Fatty had +company to his house and we dident go to ride tonite. it was two bad. + +May 17. rany as time. we coodent go to ride today. it always ranes jest +when a feller wants to do some thing. + +May 18. it raned all yesterday and last nite and today. i bet it will +rane a week. we are having prety tuf luck. + +May 19. at last it has stoped raning. i thaught i never shood wright +brite and fair agen. we had a buly ride tonite after we had tide up the +bridle with sum rope. lady Clara fell down and we had to unharnes her +and get her up. she broak the bridle and skined her gnees and we put on +sum wheal greese. Beany was standing up driving when she fell down and +it draged him rite over the dasher and on top of lady Clara. tomorow +they is going to be a ministers meeting in the upper church and there +aint enny school tomorow. so we are going to drive all day. after school +we washed the harness and got a load of sawdust at the hub mill, and +curred lady Clara. we have got most all the hay we can reech. when we +cant reech enny more i dont know where we can get enny more unless Fatty +can get sum. + +May 21. Brite and fair. i had a feerful day yesterday. i feel so bad i +cant hardly wright ennything. but i will try to wright it all down. in +the morning me and Beany and Fatty we hiched up lady Clara and drove +round town. sum of the fellers holered at us but we dident care. they +was lots of ministers in town. they was mostly long tailers with white +necktis. so in the afternoon we hiched up agen and drove up to the +depot. old woodbridge Odlin was there wating for the 2 oh clock trane. +he had a baruch with a driver and his new span of black horses with +cliped tails. and he had on his long tailed black coat and a shiny bever +hat. well we dident wate for the trane but we drove through Winter +street and out to Front street. when we came to Lincoln street old +Woodbridge Odlin came along with his baruch filled with old ministers +with bever hats and specks and white necktis, and the driver hit the +horses and away they went lickity larup. well Beany he was driving and +he leened over and hit lady Clara a paist with the whip and she went +after them like chane litening, and we all began to yell and the black +horses went faster. well they was 2 rods ahead and when we got to +Whackers house we was most up to there hind wheel, and when we got to +doctor Gorams office we was jest even. the old ministers was bouncing +around and holding on to the sides, and old Woodbridge had lost his hat +and was standing up yelling sumthing at the driver, and his whiskers +were blowing way behind him. it makes me most die to think of him but i +dont feel mutch like laffin. well when we got to Elliott street we were +ahead of them and then the driver began to pull up his horses becaus all +the people was yelling and waving there hats like time. well lady Clara +was breething so she sounded like a big sawmill saw, and when we tride +to stop her she woodent stop so we all tride together but we coodent +pull her in a mite she had her tail sticking rite up in the air and the +more we pulled the faster she went, when we went thru the square Fatty +holered to run her over string brige and up factory hill so we cood stop +her, and we pulled as hard as we cood but when she came to the corner +she tirned around into Water street and over went the wagon and we came +out jest fluking. well we want hurt mutch and we run after her as fast +as we cood. we found pieces of the wagon and harnes all over the street +and when we got to the barn she was there all rite. lots of people came +to see about it, but when they found that nobody was hurt they went +away. they wasent ennything of the harnes left but the bridle and the +wagon was everywhere along the street. Well when father came home +somebody had told him about it and he made me tell him all about it, +where we got her and how we fed her and everything, and when i told him +about the hay i thought he was going to lick time out of me he was so +mad, and he said he never knowed i cood steal, and i said i only hooked +it and he said what is the diference and i said stealing is taking +sumthing that you know belongs to sumbody else, and hooking is taking +sumthing that belongs to you and sumbody else wont let you have. i +suposed everybody knowed that. well he dident lick me, but after super +he got mister Watson, Beanys father and we all went over to see lady +Clara and what do you think, when we got there she was ded. i gess she +had broak something inside of her. i tell you me and Beany felt prety +bad and Fatty did when we told him. well then father and mister Watson +Beanys father told us to go home and go to bed and so we went. so tonite +i herd father telling mother about it and he said he give old Jethrow a +dresing down that wood tech him not to cheet a boy agen. he said if +Jethrow hadent been a old man he wood have nocked his head of. + +May 22. brite and fair. i shal never own a horse agen. + +May 23, 186- brite and fair. my hens are laying buly now. i gess they +dident have very good cair when me and Beany and Fatty was keeping Lady +Clara. i tell you a feller witch keeps a horse cant pay mutch atention +to ennything else. + +May 24. brite and fair. tonite me and father went down to old man +Collins. he wants to sell father his cow. he says she gives 20 quats of +milk a day. father says the milk we get of the milk man is all chork and +water. + +May 25. rany as time. father ofered 30 dolars for old man Collins cow. +he wants 35 dolars. she has got auful long horns. old man Collins said +she had auful big milk vanes. father said they was varrycose vanes and +she want wirth 30 dolars but he wood give it to help out a old man. old +man Collins he said if she kep on giving milk the way she was a giving +it they wood have to milk her in a tub. then father he said he gessed +she give so mutch milk that it want good for ennything and old man +Collins he said you cood take the creem up by one corner and lift it out +like a old pair of linen britches. they dident trade tonite. + +May 26. brite and fair. tonite me and father went down to old man +Collins agen. father said he was going to trade for that cow only i must +shet up and not say ennything. he said you jest wach me and you will +lern sumthing about trading. so i wached him. well we went down and +father said well mister Collins how do you feel about trading tonite. +and old man Collins he said, i gess you are two late George fer i have +sold her to a man in Hamton Falls. and father said what did you get for +her and old man Collins he said i told him he cood have her for 35 +dolars and he ofered me 33 dolars and 50 cents and i said the first man +whitch ofers me 35 dolars gets her, and i gess he will be up tomorow +morning. then father he said have you made the trade and old man Collins +he said he hadent made enny trade but he had kind of let the man +understand he cood have her for 35 dolars. then father he said he wood +give 35 dolars and old man Collins he said he dident know about selling +her xcept to the Hamton Falls man but if father wood give him 37 dolars +he cood give the Hamton Falls man 2 dolars if he came up and was +disapointed. so father he give old man Collins 37 dolars and we got a +roap and tide it round her horns and led her home. when we got home we +tried to get her in the barn, father he went ahead and she folowed him +in and all of a suddin she backed out lively and father came out jest +fluking, holding on to the roap and taking feerful long stradles. he +looked so mad that i dident dass to laff. well father held on like a +good feller and bimeby she stoped. then father said so so and held out +sum meal in a pail and got her in the barn and tide her to a post. then +he give her sum hay and we went in and he told mother she had beter make +sum araingments to sell sum milk for we was going to have 20 quats every +day. then mother she said if the cow gives milk like my hens lade egs +they woodent be mutch milk to sell, and father said you jest wait til +morning. then we went down to old Gechels store and father he bougt the +bigest milk pail he cood find. + +May 27. brite and fair. this morning me and father got up erly and we +went out to feed the cow and i piched down the hay and father he set +down and begun to milk her, he brougt out the big pail and a little one +to use after he had filled the big one. well the ferst thing he did was +to aim a streem rite in my eye. then he milked in the pail and it made a +funy sound, well he kep milking and bimeby it stoped coming, and he +squeazed away as hard as he cood and he coodent get a drop and bimeby +he give up and said he gessed it was becaus she was in a new place and +was loansum. when we went into the house and straned it thrugh a siv +they wasent quite 2 quats. mother she laffed and asked what he had done +with the other 8 quats and father he said you wait til tonite. then he +et his brekfast and went to boston and i et mine and drove the old cow +to pasture. i found a robins nest in a pine tree and took one eg. it is +all rite to take one becaus the old bird cant count. + +May 28, 186- brite and fair. last nite after super father milked the old +cow again. he only got 2 quats and a half. he was prety mad and he said +he wood get even with old man Collins sum day. tonite he met old man +Collins and he asked father if she milked esy and father said yes and he +asked father how mutch she give and father said she give more than he +wanted. that want a lie for father dont like milk. i bet father will +get even with him sum day. nothing else today but church. + +May 29. brite and fair. i have to go to pasture 2 times every day. i +like to go in the woods but i dont like to have to go. today i found a +nest in the barn with 15 hens egs. i gess mother wont say mutch about my +hens now. + +May 30. Rany. Beany has gone to Bideford to see Tom Cleves. i hope Tom +will come with him when Beany comes home. i went up to Whacker Chadwicks +tonite. Beany has been sick he et two mutch pork. + +May 31. today it was hot and we had a thunder shower. it raned when i +was driving the old cow from pasture and i made her run from old Nat +Gordons way home. Sam Dire said she wood give bludy milk, so when father +milked her i wached and it want a bit red. so i gess she is all rite. + +June 1. brite and fair. today we had a great time at brekfast. father +was home becaus sumtimes he gets tired. we had boiled egs for brekfast +and mother she boiled the egs i found in the nest. well we set down to +the table and father he helped us to egs and bisket and he took up a eg +and held it over his glass and hit it a paist with his spoon and it went +off jest like a pop pistol and father he said thunder Joey the infernal +thing is roten and we all held our nose and ran away from the table and +you never smelt such a auful smel. well mother she made me take the egs +all out behine the barn and throw them away and i did and when i got +there i had sum fun pluging them at J. Albert Clarks big apple tree and +i hit it most every time and every time i hit it the eg popped like a +pistol. then i went in to brekfast and mother was burning some coffy in +a duspan to take away the smel of the roten eg. well while we was eating +brekfast J. Albert Clark he came in and said i had beter come out and +clean of his apple tree and burn a rag and father made me take a pail +of hot water and clean it of. J. Albert needent have been so fusy for it +wood have all dride in a little while. + +June 2. brite and fair. i wish that old cow was ded. Beany hasent got +back yet. + +June 3. brite and fair. i am in bed. i aint sick only i havent got enny +close to wair. tonite after father had milked the old cow i thougt i +wood try it. so i got a tin diper and went out and set down and began to +squeaze and she kicked me rite thrugh the barn door and rite into the +manure pile. when i got up i was all covered and Aunt Clark was in her +back garden and she saw me and asked me if i was hurt and i said i +wasent and she said for mersy sakes dont come near me but go round to +the pump. well i went round to the pump and mother and Aunt Sarah and +Aunt Clark pumped on me and threw pails of water on me and scraped me +with peaces of shingle, and when they had got me prety clean mother +made me go in the barn and take of my close and then she put me in a tub +in the kichen and washed me in warm water and soped my head and then +sent me to bed. i have got to wair my best close tomorow and i cant go +out of the yard. i wish that old cow was ded. father said it sirved me +jest rite. + +June 4. Brite and fair. Beany has got back. tonite he came over and told +me about the fun he had at Bideford. we was going to ring doorbells +tonite but i had to stay in the yard and it was sunday two. + +June 5. Brite and fair. today Scotty Brigam let me take his bugle and i +lerned to make 2 notes. my mouth was all sweled up and my face aked. it +aint so esy as a tin whissle but i can make more noise on it. i gess i +shall never get that cornet. + +June 6, 186- i have to pay all the money i can ern to get corn for my +hens. + +June 7. Brite and fair in the morning and clowdy but no rane in the +afternoon. tonite me and Beany rung doorbells. we dident get cougt but +we came prety near it. + +June 8. Rany. Tonite the old cow kicked father and nocked him rite of +the stool and spilt about a quat of milk all over him. buly. i wanted to +tell him it sirved him rite but i dident dass to. + +June 9. Clowdy but no rane. father has sold the old cow to Eben Garland +the bucher. buly. Aunt Sarah asked mother what she gessed he wood have +next and mother she said she gessed he wood by a gristly bear for he had +bougt most everything but that. he says he gesses he will have sum sheap +for they cant bite or kick and dont eat mutch. + +June 10. brite and fair. the baby had the croop last nite. the minit he +coffed croopy father and mother jumped out of bed and father he fell +over a chair and that waked us all up. then he tride to lite a lamp and +he coodent find the maches and he swoar round feerful. well mother she +lit the lamp and they all went tearing round and they got sum hot water +and made the baby eat some eg and sugar and put hot close on his neck +and prety soon he was all rite. then they give me the rest of the eg and +sugar. then we all went to bed and i lay and laffed to think of father +tumbling over the chair and swaring. Ennyway the baby is all rite. + +June 11. i hate to go to church. we have all got to be vaxinated. sum +peeple in the next town have got the small pocks. Beany has been and +Pewt two. Beany says the doctor takes a nife and cuts a hole in your arm +and then puts on a big scab whitch has come of somebodys arm whitch has +been vaxinated, and that stops the blud. but he says that if the scab +dont fit you bleed to deth. so i asked father about it tonite and he +said that Beany lied about it, but he says if you are vaxinated with +the scab of a redheaded person your hair will turn red, and if he has +warts or frekles you will have warts two and frekles. father said once +when he was a boy he knew a feller whitch was vaxinated with a scab of a +cock-eyed man and bimeby the feller began to squint and he kep on +squinting wirse and wirse and bimeby he was cock-eyed two. and father he +said he knew another feller whitch had a wooden leg and he sent his scab +to another feller to be vaxinated and that feller began to limp and he +always walked stifleged. i gess father was fooling. ennyway i hope i +shant be vaxinated with Skinny Bruces scab, becaus he is redheaded. +father he said he was going to get a scab of Horis Cobb for me and +perhaps i wood have a little fat on me and not be so spindel shanked. i +wish i cood get a scab of Gim Erly or Tady Finton and i cood lick time +out of Pewt. + +June 12. brite and fair. Beany has a auful sore arm. he dont dass to +rassle or fite or do ennything. + +June 13. brite and fair. Pewt has got one two. tomorrow nite the doctor +is coming. + +June 15. brite and fair. last nite after super the doctor come and he +went into the parlor and father and mother and Cele and Keene and me and +Georgie and Annie and Frank and the baby was all in the setting room. +well ferst father went in and he was only in there a few minits and he +dident holler enny and then he come out laffing, and i asked him whose +scab he had and he said he dident know but it must have been from sum +minister becaus he had been thanking the lord it was all over. then +mother she went in and father told her he had got the scab of old Mike +Casey for her. mother is english and she dont like the irish and father +said it to plage her. well she went in and then Aunt Sarah went in and +Keene and Cele and they dident holler eether. then my tern came and i +went in and it dident hurt a bit only sort of smarted tickly like. i +asked the doctor whose scab i had and he said Bruce Brigams. buly. Bruce +Brigam is the best cornet player in town. i bet i can play like time if +i ever get a cornet. then the rest of them went in and none of them +hollered xcept the baby and he always hollers when ennything is the +matter. father told Cele that he got old Nigger Tashs scab for her and +he gessed she wood begin to turn prety dark culored before a week or 2. +Aunt Sarah told Cele he was fooling. + +June 16, 186- Brite and fair. my arm is all rite. + +June 17. Rany and thunderry. my arm begins to ich a little only i cant +scrach it. + +June 18. still rany. all our arms begin to ich. Annies arm is the wirst. +we dident go to church today. That is one good thing. I never knew it to +rane before on sunday. + +June 19. brite and fair. every one of us is cross as time. i took hold +of Georgies arm today and she began to ball and said i did it purpose. i +keep hiting my arm agenst things all the time. somehow i never hit the +well one. that is always the way with things. + +June 20. brite and fair. father is cross two. last nite he grabed me by +the arm to shake me and it hurt so i hollered like time, and then he let +me go and said he forgot about my arm. + +June 21. brite and fair. Annie is in bed sick with her arm. She always +has things the wirst xcept mother, only mother says she hasent enny time +to be sick. + +June 22. brite and fair. my arm is still auful sore and the wirst of it +is becaus i cant go in swimming. + +June 23. Brite and fair. All our arms is better. John Johnson who rings +the town bell has gone away for a week and Beanys father is going to +ring it. He has to ring it at 7 oh clock in the morning and at 1 oh +clock in the afternoon and at 9 oh clock in the nite except Saturday +nites when they ring it at 8 oh clock so that peeple can get there baths +before bedtime. Me and Beany are going to lern to ring it. + +June 24. Rany. me and Beany went up to the church today to see Beanys +father ring the town bell, he let us pull it a little, it is prety esy. +then we went up at 1 oh clock and at 9 oh clock. + +June 25. Rany again. most of our scabs has come of. i dident go up to +see Mister Watson ring the bell this morning becaus i dident get up in +time, it was sunday. Beany he dident neether, but we did tonite. Beany +can ring it prety well. + +June 26. Brite and fair. jest think, Beanys father is going to Portsmuth +tomorrow and Beany is going to ring the bell and he is going to let me +help him. Beany is a prety good feller. mother sent of the scabs today +to peeple whitch wanted them. nobody wanted mine. father said it was +becaus i was such a tuf feller. + +June 27. Brite and fair. gosh if we dident have a auful time today. in +the morning me and Beany went up to the church and rung the bell, we had +a good time and rung it jest so many rings jest as mister Watson, Beanys +father told us to, then me and Beany both got kep after school, and when +we got out we asked Noot Crummet what time it was and he said it was +jest 1 oh clock and that the town bell had jest struck and then me and +Beany jest put for the church as tite as we cood hiper, and we was prety +near tuckered out when we got there and we both grabed hold of the roap +and begun to ring the bell. well we only rung it a few times before we +herd sumone holler fire, and then more peeple begun to holler and we +looked out and we saw Charles Fifield and Charly Batcheldor and Chick +Randall and Jimmy Josie jest putting it for the ingine house, and Beany +said buly they is a fire, and we begun to ring the bell as hard as we +cood and holler fire. then the Methydist bell begun to ring and then the +upper house bell, and Charles Tolls horses came galoping down to the +fountain ingine house with Mat Sleeper driving. And Mager Blakes horses +went by jest lickety larup for the Torrent ingine house with old Brown +driving, and then Flunk Ham came piling into the church and said, give +me that roap and he puled like time, then sum peeple came runing in and +said where is the fire, and Flunk he said we dident know, and then we +herd the ingine and went out and they was the Torrent and the fountain +and lots of men, and they said where in hel is the fire and nobody +knowed where it was. and then Chick Randall he asked Flunk what he was +ringing the bell for and Flunk he said he found me and Beany ringing it. +then they asked us what we was ringing it for and we said we was ringing +it for Mister Watson Beanys father, because he was going to ring it for +Mister Johnson, and he had to go to Portsmuth and so he told Beany to +ring it, and then old Brown he said us was fools and asked us if we +dident know enuf to tell time and he said it was only 20 minits past 12 +oh clock when the bell begun to ring, and some of the peeple was mad and +said we had aught to be arested, and then we said that Noot Crummet told +us it was 1 oh clock and then sum of them begun to laff and said it was +a good one. Ennyway me and Beany run home as quick as we cood and the +peeple went of two. well tonite father said if he had got into so many +scrapes when he was a boy as me and Beany did he wood have been in jale. +and Aunt Sarah laffed and said she gessed she cood tell a few things if +she wanted to and father he said he cood two but he gessed he woodent. +Ennyway he said Gim Melcher and Charles Talor led him into a good many +scrapes and Aunt Sarah she said she gessed me and Beany and Pewt want a +sercumstance to father and Gim Melcher and Charles Talor. + +June 28. brite and fair. it is most fourth of July again. they is going +to be a band concert on the square. i shant have as mutch money as last +year. ennyway i bet i will have a good time. i went in swiming 4 times +today. i coodent go in while my arm was sore. Annie is most well but +cross as time. + +June 29. brite and fair. i went in swiming 5 times today. tomorow me and +Pewt is going pikerilling. Pewt is a good feller to fish. fourth of July +is coming next week. + +June 30. today me and Pewt went fishing. We got Charles Flanders little +blew bote. it is the esiest bote to row i ever rowd. Pewt cougt 4 +pikeril and 5 kivies and 3 pirch. i cougt 2 pikeril and 2 kivies and 4 +pirch and 1 sucker. we cougt sum minnies and shiners for bate but we +dident call them ennything. we div of the bank at the eddy, once Pewt +sliped and come down all guts, it nocked the wind all out of him. + +July 1. brite and fair. today is the first day of July, and we had my +fish fride for brekfast. + +July 2. brite and fair. i bougt 5 bunches of snapcrackers and 2 bunches +of canon crackers and sum slow mach and put them in a box in my room. +tomorow is the nite before fourth. Pewt is going to have a pistol and +Beany a canon. father he says if he hears of me fooling with a gun he +will lick me and send me to bed for a week. ennyway he dident say +ennything about a pistol or a canon. + +July 3. gosh i was scart today. this morning i went up to my room to +look at my snap crackers. i got the box on the floor and was counting +them when i looked out of the window. i saw old Miss Hartnett hanging +out sum close on the line, i thougt i cood make her gump and i wanted to +try jest one canon cracker to see if they was good ones. well i lit one +and pluged it down behind her, and jest as she was reaching up with her +mouth full of close pins it went of bang, and she hollered love of God +and went rite over backwards. i thougt i shood die and jest then one +went of bang rite in the room and then they all begun to go of bang bang +bang and i grabed the box up and pluged it out of the window and mother +came up jest hipering and the room was full of smoke and i was stamping +out the burning paper. well when i got it out she was prety mad with me +and made me clean the room and wash the floor and windows. ferst i went +out and picked up my snapcrackers. they were all rite but all the canon +crackers but 2 had went of. Mother she asked me how they got afire and i +said i was fooling with them and they got on fire and i had to plug them +out of the window. then she said that was what fritened Miss Hartnett so +and i said was she fritened and she said she was so fritened that she +fell over backwards and i said is that so. mother dont know i did it on +purpose whitch is prety good luck for me, so she only made me keep my +snapcrackers in the yard. so i put them in a hole in the apple tree. +gosh, you aught to hear Miss Hartnett tell about it. + +July 7, 186- brite and fair. i have been in bed 3 days. on the fourth i +got bloan up with Pewts canon. i had fired all my snapcrackers but 2 +bunches whitch i had saved for nite, so me and Pewt we was fixing the +canon, ferst we wood put in sum powder and then we wood put in sum wet +paper for a wod and then we wood put in sum grass and then put in the +ramrod and pound it down with a rock. then we wood put a fuze of a snap +cracker in the tuch hole and lite it and put for the other side of the +street and it wood make an auful bang and tern 2 or 3 sumersets. Well we +had lots of fun and bimeby i was poaring out sum powder out of the +powder horn and all of a suddin they was a flash of litening and the +next i knew i was in bed and father and mother and Cele and Keene and +docter Perry and aunt Sarah and aunt Clark and Georgie was in the room, +and i said what is the matter and mother began to laff and then to cry +and Docter Perry he said you had better take her out and let her lie +down, but mother she said she wood be all rite and docter he said you +needent wurry Missis Shute, you coodent kill this boy with brik. well my +eyes smarted and i felt like the room was spinning round but it dident +hurt enny. well that nite i coodent go to the band concert but they +pushed my bed up to the window and i cood hear it prety good. the next +day i had sum buly gelly and oranges and Cele and Keene read to me and +in the afternoon Beany came in to see me. Beany he burnt his hand on the +fourth and Pewt he burnt of one eyebrow and so we all had a prety good +fourth. Yesterday Boog and Puzzy came down and fit for me until mother +came up. i am all rite now and tomorow i can go in swiming. it was the +babys berthday today. he was just 1 year old. he is a auful fat little +baby, when i was sick mother wood let him sit on the bed. + +July 8. brite and fair. i went in swimming today. the water was jest as +warm as if it came out of the kittle. next monday i am going bull +froging with Cawcaw Harding. + +July 9. brite and fair, nothing today but church. + +July 10. me and Cawcaw had a prety good time today. we cougt 3 dozen +bull frogs legs. we got sum old busters. it is auful funny to catch +them. they will bite a bare hook, so we swing the hook by them and they +gump for it and then they kick and almost tern rong side out trying to +get of of the hook. then we grab them by the legs and whak their heads +over the side of the bote and their inside comes out and sumtimes lots +of hard water snales comes ratling out and sumtimes they has fishes and +sumtimes other bull frogs or stripers. then we cut of there legs. me and +Cawcaw always kill them ferst. sum fellers cut of there legs ferst, that +is prety cruil i think. Cawcaw he thinks so two. + +July 11. brite and fair. today i went in swiming up to sandy bottum. +Whack and Boog and Puzzy were there and got to pluging green apples. +Whack got behind a tree and jest as he peeked out Boog pluged a hard one +and took Whack rite in the mouth. then Whack got mad and said he cood +lick Boog and Puzzy together, so Boog and Puzzy piched in and had a good +fite and punched time out of Whack. While i was waching them fite, +sumbody tide gnots in my shert sleavs so tite that i coodent get them +out so i had to go home without my shert on. it was prety lucky i had my +jaket on. + +July 12. Today i went up to Whacks and we et sum green currents with +shugar on them and then et sum green apples and then we went in +swimming down to sandy bottum. i dont feel very well tonite, i have got +a bely ake. + +July 13. i have been sick all day, mother made me take a big spoon full +of caster oil. + +July 14. i am beter today, it raned all day and tonite they was a +thunder shower, it struck a tree in Gilman field. + +July 15. i went up to Whacks agen today. i dident eat enny green apples +or green currents you bet. Whack and Boog and Puzzy did and they give +little Willie sum. they never have the bely ake. i never see such +fellers. + +July 16. i have got a velosipede, it ways 90 pounds. i have got so i can +ride it down hill, last nite i was riding it up by Gim Odlins and it ran +rite into a tree and i came of rite over it and scrached my hands and +nocked the skin of my gnees. today was sunday and i coodent ride it but +i set on it. + +July 17. Hot as time today. Docter Gerrish and Docter Perry and J. +Albert Clark have all got buly velossipedes, they have spring backs but +mine is solid iron back and when i go over a bump or a stone it most +ratles my teeth out. Beany he can ride two, but Pewt cant. + +July 18. feerful hot. + +July 19, 186- we fellers is going to have a swiming mach. they is going +to be prises for the feller whitch can dive the best and for the feller +whitch can swim the fastest and for the feller whitch can swim the +furtherest under water and for the feller whitch can flote the best +without wigling his arms and legs. i bet i will beat sum of the fellers. +most of the fellers can beat me rassling or nocking of hats or running +or gumping but i bet i will show them sumthing when we come to race in +swiming. i practised today diving until my head aked feerful. + +July 20. the race is to be next Wensday. They is Pewt and Beany and +Fatty Gilman and Fatty Melcher. Boog and Whack and Puzzy was going to +race but they wanted to have it at sandy bottum and we fellers wanted to +have the diving mach at the oak and the swiming under water at the +gravil becaus it is wider there, and so they was mad and woodent come +in. Ennyway sandy bottum isent wide enuf and you cant tell whether a +feller is swiming one foot on bottum. today i went in 7 times. ferst i +practised swiming fast bullfrog fashion. next i practised side stroak +next i practised swiming under water. i swum 5 times acros at the +gravil. then i practised floteing, but i cant flote without keeping my +hands moving. ferst my feet sink and when i get straight up and down my +head goes under. then i div until my head aked like time agen. i feel +prety tired tonite. + +July 21. rany as time. i only went in swiming 2 times today and i dident +dive enny. i only practised swiming fast and floteing. i coodent flote. +in every boys book of sports and amuzements it says throw yourself on +your back and throw your head back and hold your breth and you will not +drownd until asistance reeches you. so i tride it today but i coodent +hold my breth more than 1 minit and as soon as i let out my breth down i +went unless i kep my hands moving. so what the man whitch rote that book +said aint so unless asistance comes in 1 minit. + +July 22. brite and fair and hot as time. Pewt thinks he is going to beat +me swiming. i gess he will find out. + +July 23. today was sunday and i coodent practise swiming or diving, darn +it. + +July 24. brite and fair. i only went in swiming 2 times today, once this +morning and once this afternoon, but i staid in all the morning and all +the afternoon so i coodent go in more then 2 times. the race is day +after tomorow. + +July 25. brite and fair. today we went up to Pewts and we aranged about +the prises. Pewt was to give the prises. the prise for swiming fast was +a bag of erly apples from Pewts garden. the prise for swiming under +water was a gewsharp and the prise for the best diver was a cain fishing +pole and the prise for floteing was a arrow rifle. we all give 5 cents +eech to buy the cain pole. the gewsharp was one whitch Pewt had and the +arrow rifle Pewt had made. So Pewt he said as long as he give 2 of the +prises he was to have the say about whitch beat. + +July 26. brite and fair. the fellers plaid a meen trick on me today. the +meenist i ever see. i wont ever speak to enny of them agen. this morning +we had the race. ferst we had the fast race. we started at the oak and +swum down to the gravil. i was as far as from here to Beanys house +ahead. so i got the apples. Fatty Melcher was next and Pewt was next and +Beany and Fatty Gilman got tired and went ashore. next we had the +floteing mach. Fatty Gilman floted the longest and then Beany becaus he +was fat two and then Pewt and then Fatty Melcher and then me. i was the +wirst and the fellers all howled at me. so Fatty Gilman he got the arrow +rifle. i dont cair. then we went back to the oak to have the diving +mach. after we had div Beany and Fatty Melcher they said i div the best +and Pewt and Fatty Gilman said Pewt div the best. then Pewt giv himself +the prise becaus he had the say. i was prety mad. then we went down to +the gravil to have the swiming under water mach so i went ferst and i +swum from the going in place on Moltons field to the elm tree on old Nat +Gilmans side and when i come up and looked round they wasent enny feller +ennywhere. so i swum back prety lively and my close was gone and the +apples and the gewsharp and the fellers two. so i dident know what to +do. i thougt they had hid the close and i hunted in the buches but i +dident find them. so i wated a long time and bimeby i heard sum oars and +i looked and i saw a bote with a feller and 2 girls, so i coodent holler +and i hid behind a tree. so they went by and then i come out and i +walked back to the oak and when i got there i found sum girls picking +dasies and i lay down behind the fence and just then a hornet stung me 2 +times and i yelled and gumped rite up and danced round before i thougt +and then i see them and i hipered back to the gravil, they hipered two +the other way you bet. well i set there in the shade for a long time +until i got kind of cold and then i set in the sun. i thougt sum of the +fellers wood come in swiming, but nobody come. i knowed if i wated til +dark i cood get home all rite, only i wood get a licking for scaring the +folks most to deth for they wood think i was drownded. well jest then i +heard sum fellers talking up by the oak and i went up and there was +Potter Goram and Chick Chickering. they had been fishing and had cougt +sum buly pikeril. well i holered to them and they come down where i was +and i told them about the meen trick the fellers had plaid on me and +Potter he said he wood go home for sum close and he give me his jaket +and then he hipered acres the field and me and Chick began to fish and i +cougt a pirch and a eal and Chick he cougt 2 roach. then Potter he come +back with my best close and so i coodent fish enny more. so i went home +in my best close. when i went by Pewts he holered Plupy has got on his +best close. i dident say ennything. so when i got home mother asked me +about it and i told her, it want telltaily eether. so mother she told me +to go up to Pewts for my close and i said if Pewt took them he cood +bring them back and Beany and Fatty two. so at super father he asked me +why i had got on my best close and i told him and he said if Pewt +dident bring those close back in about 5 minits he wood go up and boot +him down to our house and back agen and jest then Mister Purington came +into the yard holding Pewt by the ear. Pewt he had the close and Mister +Purington he nocked at the door and he asked for me and when i come to +the door he made Pewt give me the close and then he told Pewt to tell me +he was sorry for what he had done and Pewt he dident want to say it but +Mister Purington most lifted Pewt of the ground by the ear and then Pewt +he said he was sorry kind of mad like and Mister Purington lifted him up +agen til Pewt he stood on his tip toes and his face was all onesided and +his eyes all squinty and then he had to say it over agen polite. and +then Mister Purington he led Pewt home all the way by the ear. i thougt +i shood die. it sirved Pewt jest rite. father laffed when i told him how +the hornet stung me and how the girls hipered. + +July 27. brite and fair. Pewt cant go out of the yard today. i dident +speak to Beany. + +July 28. brite and fair. i am going with Potter and Chick Chickering +instead of Pewt and Beany. we went butterflying today. + +July 29. brite and fair. nothing to wright today. + +July 30. thunder storm rite after church. i wish it had been rite +before. + +July 31. tonite a man come down to see father and said i had gumped up +behind a fence without my close on and scart his girls. he was stoping +at the beach and they come up to Mager Blakes hotel. well father called +me in and i told the man all about it and bimeby he begun to laff and he +said it was a prety meen trick on me and he shook hands with me and he +was glad i dident do it a purpose only he was sorry i got stung. + +Aug. 1. me and Potter and Chick went fishing. Chick fell of little river +brige with his close on. Potter caugt a whacking snaping tirtle. he +gave it to Sam Dire and he cut his head of after it was cut of it wood +bite a stick. Sam says it wont die til the sun goes down. he says that +if you cut a snake in 2 peaces it will come together agen and heel up +and be as good as ever. me and Potter is going to try it. + +Aug. 2. big thunder shower last nite. we all got up and lit lamps and +set round in our nite sherts. we lit all the lamps we cood find so we +coodent see the litening. father kept telling funny stories, but mother +and Aunt Sarah was scart and told him he hadent aught to joke when enny +minit he mite be struck by litening. father he said he dident beleave +the litening wood strike him enny quicker for not being scart of it then +it wood if he gumped and holered o lord every time it litened. well +after a while it only litened way of and we went to bed. + +Aug. 3. i havent spoke to Beany yet or to Pewt eether. + +Aug. 4. this morning it was Friday. we have fish chowder Fridays. i dont +like it and so i drink milk and father wanted the milkman to go down +celler to try some of his vinegar. mother hangs the wash boiler and the +tin pans and iron kittles in the celler way and when ennyone whitch is +tall goes down celler he has to stupe down so not to nock down the pans +and kittles. so father he was down celler and he holered for the milkman +to come down and when he went down he hit his head aginst the boiler and +nocked it down and all the kittles and pans tumbled down on his head and +went banging down into the celler and you never heard such a feerful +noise. father was mad as time, but after the milkman was gone we all +laffed as if we wood die. mother and Aunt Sarah had to set down they +laffed so. mother said it made more noise then the thunder did last +nite. + +Aug. 5. me and Cawcaw Harding has got a new way of fishing for pikeril +when we are in a bote. one of us padles the bote and the other skips for +pikeril. when you try to pull a pikeril into a bote most half of the +time he goes over the bote into the water, so when me and Cawcaw fishes +when the feller which is skiping gets a bite he lets him have it a minit +and the feller whitch is padling the bote padles towards the shore and +then the feller whitch is skiping gumps rite out as soon as the water +aint over his head and gives a big yank, and the pikeril goes saling +into the field. sumtimes when it is woods the line gets tangled all up +in a tree and we have to shin up the tree or cut it down to get the +pikeril. we get prety wet but we dont cair. we always ring out our close +when we get done fishing and they is most dry when we get home. today +the bigest pikeril we caugt got up in a tree and we coodent shin up the +tree and we coodent plug him down with rocks so we had to leeve him +there. we got 12 pikeril. we are going monday. + +Aug. 6. brite and fair. today after sunday school Beany he came over and +we made up. this was the longest time i ever was mad with Beany. i am +glad we aint mad enny more. father let me go to ride with Mister Watson +and Beany this afternoon. we went down to the beach and took our +lunchun. when we was coming home me and Beany got most asleep and our +legs got asleep two, so Mister Watson he told us to get out and walk a +little and we wood be all rite and when we got out he whiped up his +horse and drove of lively and made me and Beany walk most a mile. we kep +awake after that you bet. i had a good time. + +Aug. 7, 186- clowdy but no rane. me and Cawcaw went fishing agen today +in the bote ferst i padled and he skiped and then he padeled and i +skiped. when we got up by the cove i got a bite and Cawcaw he padled +the bote towards the shore and i gumped out lively and gumped into a +deep place and went down way under. when i came up Cawcaw was nearly ded +he laffed so. well i held onto my pole and swum to the shore it was only +3 stroaks and i sloshed up the bank and yanked that pikeril way into the +buches. he was a big one. Cawcaw did it purpose. sumtime i am going to +rock the bote sudding when Cawcaw is standing up skiping and he will go +into the river kerswash. + +Aug. 8. hot as time. me and Beany rung sum more doorbells tonite. we +dident get cougt. + +Aug. 9. brite and fair. Potter Goram can stuf birds, so they look jest +like they was alive. he stufed a red winged blackbird so good that the +cat et it and dide. and then Potter he skun the cat and stufed her. i +can skin the cat on the horizondle bar, that is another way. + +Aug. 10. me and Beany rung sum more doorbells tonite. we rung old Heads +doorbell and then we tiptode round by the side of his house into Gim +Ellersons yard and laid down behind the current bushes. well jest as old +Head come piling out mad as time Pewt and Fatty Melcher come rite by and +old Head grabed for them and Fatty he run and Pewt got cougt and old +Head he jest lammed Pewt with his cain and Pewt holered he dident do it +and old Head said he did and then he give Pewt sum good bats and sent +him home balling. me and Beany most dide only we dident dass to laff out +loud. jest then father come out to see what Pewt was holering about and +he said what is the matter Orrin and Mister Head he said sum cussid boy +has been ringing my door bell most every nite and i cougt him tonite and +licked him good. and father he said who was it, and Mister Head he said +it was Brad Puringtons boy, and father said i am glad it wasent my boy +and mister Head he said i am glad two but i gess your boy woodent be +meen enuf to ring doorbells and father he said i gess he woodent eether +and then they went in and me and Beany we tiptode up Maple street and +down town and then back home jest as if we had been down town all the +time. that was a good one on Pewt. it made me think of the time Mister +Watson Beanys father licked Beany when we rung his doorbell and he came +to the door with a lamp and the wind blowed the lamp out and Mister +Watson he bumped his head on the door. + +Aug. 11. brite and fair. i cant help laffing every time i think of Pewt +getting licked. it is a good one on Pewt. + +Aug. 12. brite and fair. tonite me and Beany tride the same trick on +Nipper. we saw Nip go down town and we rung Bill Greenleefs bell 2 times +before Nip come back. we hid in old Ike Shutes porch and peeked out of a +little window. Bill he come out and run round the side of the house and +then he run up street and looked behind trees and fences and swoar +terible. me and Beany near dide. he was so mad that he staid up til +nearly 10 oh clock waching. we cood see him peeking out of the window +and we dident dass to go home til after 10 oh clock and i got licked for +being late. if Nipper had only come home when he had aught to Bill wood +have cougt him and licked him and we wood have got home all rite. we +will pay Nip for this. + +Aug. 13. brite and fair. nothing but church today. + +Aug. 14. brite and fair. i coodent go out of the yard today. Beany he +come over and we are going to ring old man Hobbses door bell tomorow +nite. old man Hobbs is Prisils uncle. + +Aug. 15. brite and fair, and hot as time. tonite we rung old man Hobbses +door bell 2 times. it was auful funny. the ferst time he come out kind +of slow with a lamp. me and Beany were rite on the other side of the +street laying down in the long grass. well he looked all round and +walked out to the end of the piaza and then he went in mutering. bimeby +we rung it agen and out he come prety lively but he dident catch us. if +he was as lively as Bill Greenleef he wood have cougt us. well he went +round the house and then old Missis Hobbs she came to the door and said +what is it William, and he said it is some more of that Purington boys +deviltry, and she said i wood speek to his father and old Hobbs he said +he wood and then they went in. jest as we was going to ring the bell +agen a man come walking quick down the street and went up to the door +and rung the bell and jest as the bell rung old Hobbs opened the door +quick and gumped out and grabed the man and said you rascul i have got +you and the man said you old fool are you crasy and then old Hobbs he +said i thougt it was that Purinton boy ringing my door bell and then +the man went in the house and we wated til they had shet the door and we +put for home and made sum sweet firn segars. tomorow old Hobbs is going +to tell Pewts father. i never had so much fun in my life. + +Aug. 16. brite and fair. today Pewt come down to the house and said +where was you last nite and i said me and Beany was making sweet firn +segars over to Beanys and i gave him 2 segars. then Pewt he said that +old Hobbs come down to his house today and told his father he rung his +doorbell 2 times and Pewt said he dident and his father said he dident +beleeve him and was going to lick time out of him if he had and he did +it. Pewt was prety mad and i was prety surprized you bet. this afternoon +they was a thunder storm. after it was over we went fishing but dident +get a bite. + +Aug. 17. brite and fair. went up to Whacks this morning and Boog and +Puzzy had 2 fites. neether licked becaus old miss Finton come out and +stoped them. Boog got a bludy nose the second fite. in the afternoon i +went fishing with Cawcaw. i dident get a chance to tip him over but we +cougt 5 pikeril. tomorow nite me and Beany are going to ring sum +doorbells. + +Aug. 18. clowdy but no rane. jest the rite day to go fishing. i was +going with Cawcaw but he was sick becaus he et to many apples up to +Whacks. tonite Beany coodent go out of the yard becaus he dident split +sum kindlings so we dident ring enny doorbells. it was a prety meen day. +all the fun i had was going in swiming. + +Aug. 19. prety hot today. i went in swiming 5 times. sumthing is the +matter with my eyes i keep winking them all the time. father keeps +saying stop batting your eyes. i gess it is becaus i keep opening my +eyes under water to see things on bottum. father says if i dont stop it +i shant go in swiming enny more. + +Aug. 20. it raned this morning so hard that i dident have to go to +church. buly. + +Aug. 21. brite and fair. tonite me and Beany rung old Missis Sawyers +bell. when she come out with the lamp we run into Pewts yard and then +into Nat Weeks. she went in and come out agen with a shorl on and went +rite over to mister Purintons and nocked at the door. we was near enuf +to hear evrything. when Pewts father come to the door she said i think +things has come to a prety pass if peeple cant keep there boy from +trubling there nabors. and then Mr. Purinton Pewts father said what is +the matter and Missis Sawyer she said your boy has been ringing my +doorbell and Pewts father he said how do you know he did it and Missis +Sawyer she said i see him run rite into your yard. and so Pewts father +he come out and went round the yard but coodent find ennybody. so he +said praps it was the Watson boy or the Shute boy and she said praps it +was becaus she had heard they was prety bad boys. then Pewts father said +it was a mersy if they dident both get into jale and she said she gessed +the Shute boy was a trial to his father and mother and Pewts father he +said he gessed the Watson boy was two. then he said if he was her he +wood go rite down and see there fathers. when me and Beany heard that we +clim over Nat Weeks fence esy and put for home. when we got there they +was nobody in Beanys kichen and we went in esy and got the sweet firn +and begun to make sweet firn segars. bimeby we heard old Missis Sawyer +blabing to Beanys mother and she said she wood go in and see if Elly was +in and when she come in Beany said mother jest see how many segars me +and Plupy has made and he held up a lot that we made last week and she +said you boys must have wirked a long time and Beany he said it takes a +good deal of time to make so many and she went back looking prety +pleased becaus she thougt Beany dident ring the old doorbell and she +told old Missis Sawyer that we had been making sweet firn segars all the +evening in the kitchin. so old Missis Sawyer went home kind of mad +becaus it wasent me and Beany whitch rung her doorbell ennyway she +thougt it wasent. + +Aug. 22. brite and fair. + +Aug. 23. brite and fair. tonite me and Pewt and Beany and Fatty Gilman +and Fatty Melcher and Billy Swett and Gim Erly and lots of the fellers +come up and plaid i spy the bull. one feller lays it and he shets his +eyes at the gool and counts fifty and the rest of the fellers go and +hide and when he has counted fifty he trys to find the fellers and tag +his gool before they do. they is a stick leening agenst the gool and if +one of the fellers can get to the gool ferst he can plug the stick as +far as he can and the feller whitch is laying it has to run and get the +stick and go back to the gool and leeve the stick there before he can +find enny more fellers and if enny fellers has been cougt they can hide +agen. so tonite we plaid it til nine oh clock and i had laid it most an +hour when Pewt pluged the stick and hit old Bill Morril rite in the head +jest as he came round the corner and he was mad as time and we put for +home jest lively. Pewt dident meen to do it. Bill hadent aught to have +been coming round the corner jest then ennyway. Bill told father they +was the tufest set of boys in the naborhood he ever see. i was behind +the current buches when Bill told father this and he showed father his +old plug hat whitch was all dented in. father he said well Bill we usted +to make things prety lively when we was boys. then he told Bill that he +usted to ask his father if he cood go over and sleep with Gim Melcher +and his father wood say yes, and Gim Melcher he wood ask his father if +he cood go over and sleep with father and Gims father wood say yes, and +they wood stay out all nite and raise time, and Gims father he wood +think Gim was over to fathers house, and fathers father wood think +father was over to Gims house and so they woodent get cougt. that wood +be a prety good trick for me and Beany to try only father wood know two +mutch. i gess that is the reason father finds out so mutch about me +becaus he was prety tuf when he was a boy. i gess that is the reson why +ministers boys is most always tuf becaus there fathers dont know how to +find out what tuf things they do. i wish i was a ministers son so i cood +be tuf and not get found out, only i wood have to go to church 3 times +evry sunday. + +Aug. 25. brite and fair. i wish i was ded. a feller might as well be ded +as to be getting licked all time for nuthing. tonite me and Beany wated +till it was dark and we saw Bill Greenlef go down town. then we tide a +string to his doorbell and hiched the other end to old printer Smiths +door on the other side of the street and hauled it tite. bimeby Bill he +come back and went in the side door. then a man came by driving a horse +and when the horse run agenst the string both doorbells rung before the +string broak and out come Bill and old printer Smith. when they found +they wasent ennyone there they was prety mad. Bill he run round looking +behind fences and trees and old printer he swoar terible and went +through Miss Sulivans and over to Nipper Browns and all round. me and +Beany was hiding in Ike Shutes porch. bimeby they come back and talked. +Bill said they must be 2 of them and old printer he said it was about +time this thing was stoped and he was going to find out who did it if it +took him all summer. well bimeby they went in to wate and see if ennyone +rung there doorbells sum more. Bill he said he wood leeve his door open +jest a little and old printer Smith he said he wood leeve his open jest +a little two so he cood gump out and lam time out of the feller whitch +rung his bell. well bimeby me and Beany crep out esy and hunted round +til we found the string and we tide it agen as tite as we cood and then +we crep back into the porch and peeked through the window. bimeby old +mister Lyford come up the sidewalk and when he come to the string it +gerked his old plug hat of and he picked it up and brushed it and then +went of. bimeby a hack came by and when it hit the string both door +bells gingled feerful and Bill and old printer Smith came hipering out +as if they was hiched to the string. Bill went to gump of the side of +the steps and he got the string round his leg and went fluking and then +holered to old printer Smith that they was a string tide to his door +bell and printer he holered back that they was one tide to his two. then +they swoar and talked sum and jest then Pewts father come out and they +said it was Pewt and old Missis Sawyer she come out and she said it was +Pewt two. well then they begun to hunt and look behind trees and into +doorways and me and Beany got prety scart and bimeby we opened the door +esy and hipered round Ikes house and ran rite into old printer and he +grabed us both by the neck and holered i have got the misable cusses and +he draged us out to the lite and Bill and Brad said it is George Shutes +boy and Irv Watsons boy and they shook us up lively. well old Missis +Sawyer wanted them to take us to jale but Pewts father and Bill and +printer said to take us down to our fathers and so printer held us by +the neck and marched us down the street and Pewts father and Bill come +along two and old Missis Sawyer she came taging along talking all the +time that we was the wirst boys in town. we went down to fathers ferst +and he come out and Bill he went over and called mister Watson. well he +come over and they all went into the back yard and they told father +about it and Missis Sawyer said she was going to have us arested and +father he said if she wanted to arest me all rite but he wood get a +lawyer and carry the case to the circus coart if it took evry cent he +had and Mister Watson he said so two. and father he said he woodent have +his boy distirbing his nabors and he wood lick me and make me beg +evrybodys pardon, but it wasent merder or hyway robery to ring doorbells +and if they wanted to arest me to sale rite in, and Mister Watson he +said so two. then father and Mister Watson marched us up to old Hobbs +and made us beg his pardon and old Hobbs told father we was the wirst +boys in town and father aught to whale the life out of us, and then we +went down to Pewts and had to beg his pardon for getting him a licking +and then we went over to mister Heads and begged his pardon two. then +father took me into the kichin and give me a licking for eech doorbell +that we rung. he give me a good one for Missis Sawyer becaus she was a +woman and he said we dident have enny bizness to plage a woman, and he +give me a prety good one for Bill becaus Bill was a prety good feller, +and he only hit me one lick for old Hobbs becaus he was mad at what old +Hobbs said and he dident hit me a lick for mister Head becaus Pewt got +licked for it and he said Pewt had aught to have been licked so many +times when he dident that one licking one way or the other woodent make +much diference. the wirst was when i had to beg Pewts pardon. i wood +rather get 2 lickings. + +Aug. 26, 186- Brite and fair. tonite i asked father about him and Gim +Melcher staying out all nite and he laffed and said it was trew. then i +asked him how menny times he did it and he said all the times he wanted +to becaus his father thougt he was a beter boy then he was. well i asked +him if i cood stay out all nite sum time and he said no. then he said i +woodent dass to and i said i bet i wood. then he said i cood if i +wanted to and then mother she said George are you crasy and he said no +but he gessed after i had been out a while i wood be homesick. so after +super i asked Beany and Beany he asked his father and he told his father +what father said and bimeby Mister Watson Beanys father he said Beany +cood stay out if i cood. so we are going to stay out Monday nite. + +Aug. 27. brite and fair. nothing but church. + +Aug. 28. rany as time. jest the luck. i coodent sleep enny last nite +thinking about staying out all nite. ennyway i dident go to sleep til +most morning and when i woke up it was raning hard, and it raned hard +all day. it has stoped now. they wasent enny fun today. + +Aug. 29. brite and fair. i am wrighting this in the morning becaus i +shall be to bizzy tonite to wright ennything. i bet me and Beany will +have sum fun. last nite father said they was a tiger got out of a +circus and he kind of thougt it was somewhere in the Eddy woods. i aint +afrade. Beany aint neether. + +Aug. 30. brite and fair. i gess i wont try to stay out all nite agen. it +aint enny fun. yesterday afternoon mother made me go to bed so i woodent +be sleepy at nite and Beanys mother she did two. i coodent sleep and +bimeby i got up and stuck my head out of the window and looked over to +Beanys house and Beany he was looking out of his window and bimeby +Potter and Cawcaw went by with their fish poles and you bet i wanted to +go two, but i had to stay in my room. so Beany and i begun to holler +acrost to each other and i made up this poitry about Beany, + + fat pork and beens + thats what it meens + that Beanys got the belyake + from fat pork and beens. + +and then Beany he made up this poitry about me, + + Plupy Shute is meener than Pewt + and he is a prety meen galoot. + +then mother made me go in a room on the other side of the house, but i +coodent sleep and she let me get up at super time. when father come home +he said the tiger had carrid of and et up a bull over to Kingston and he +gessed he was coming this way, but i wasent scart. well after super i +split my kindlings and me and Beany went down town. we went to doctor +Derborns store and got sum soda water and Beany he paid for it. then we +got sum goozeberries of old Si Smiths and i paid for them and then we +went over to Beanys and got a lot of sweet firn segars and then we went +down town agen. we went into stores and looked at things and we went +down to the warf and then we went acrost to the raceway and went in +swiming. it was kind of cold and we dident stay in very long. then it +began to be dark and we went back to water street and staid in the +stores til the nine oh clock bell rung and then we went back home. the +folks was all setting on the front steps. so me and Beany set down two +and bimeby the folks said they must go in and they all went in and shet +the door. it made me feel lonesum when i herd them lock the door. it +must be prety tuf on fellers whitch havent got enny home. then me and +Beany went over to his house and set on the steps til his folks went in +and shet the door and then we set on the fence under the gas lite and we +herd Nat Weeks come home and mister Gewell and bimeby Si Smith shet up +his store and then it begun to be loansum. so we went down as fer as the +swamscot house and they was a lite in sum of the rooms and we set down +on old Kellogs steps and talked. bimeby old Straton the gas man come +round with a little ladder and clim up and put out the gas and then it +was prety dark. then Beany he said less go up to Pewts and yowl like +cats. so we went up into Pewts garden and we begun to yowl feerful like +cats and bimeby Pewts father opened a window and holered scat you devils +and jest then Nat Weeks he stuck his head out and he holered scat two. +and then we kep still a minit and Pewts father said i wish there wasent +a cussid cat alive and Nat Weeks he said so two and then they went to +bed agen. bimeby we begun to yowl agen and then we yowled jest like cats +fiting and Pewts father opened the window agen and pluged a club out +into the yard and holered scat and then we kep still and we herd him +tell Nat Weeks that he had got his gun loded and if he herd it go of he +needent be sirprized. so you bet we dident yowl agen. so after Pewts +father and Nat Weeks had gone to bed agen we clim over the fence esy and +went of up towards Gilmans barn. Beany stumped me to go as fer as the +barn and we was going there when i thougt of the tiger and told Beany +about it. we wasent afrade but they wasent enny fun in going down to the +barn so we went back down towards the high school yard and it was prety +dark there and so we dident go down to set on the steps. bimeby it +struck eleven oh clock. ferst the town clock and jest after it the +factory bell an then we cood hear clocks striking in the houses on the +street. i tell you it made me feel loansum. we coodent see enny lites in +the houses, so we set on the steps and told stories and talked about the +fellers and the girls. Beany said he gessed he wood mary Lizzie Tole, Ed +Toles sister sum day. i bet he wont. then Beany he said when he was a +man he wood by the club stable and have all the horses he wanted to +drive, and i cood wirk for him if i dident get drunk [curiously enough, +the first two statements in this prophecy came true] like most of the +hostlers. i told him that i wasent going to wirk for ennybody for i was +going to play in the band like Bruce Brigam, Scotty Brigams brother. +bimeby we herd sum real cats yowling and it sounded sort of feerful. +Cele read us a story when we was sick with the scarlet fever about a man +whitch had a black cat and he got mad with her and cut out one eye. then +he got mad with his wife and cut her throte and stuck her up in the +chimny in the celler and pluged up the hole. bimeby the polisemen come +to find out where his wife was and they hunted evry where in the house +and stable and hen koop and evrywhere and bimeby they wanted to go into +his celler. so the man he said all rite fellers come rite down and so +the polisemen went down celler with him and he showed them all over the +celler and they looked evrywhere and coodent find ennything and jest as +they was going out they herd a feerful yowl and they stoped and lissened +and it kept on yowling in the chimny and when they took a pickax and +wanted to dig a hole in the chimny the man whitch killed his wife said +they wasent ennything in the chimny for it hadent been opened for 1 +hundred years, but they cut open the chimny and what do you gess they +found. well they found his wife with her throte cut and a old black cat +with 1 eye out setting on her showlder yowling. so they grabed the man +and punched time out of him and they hung him to a lampost. well when +Cele read that story to us we all was wirse for 3 days and Annie never +got over it and when i hear a cat yowl i think of what the polisemen +found in the chimny. so when i herd the cat yowling i told Beany that +story and Beany he dident want to go of of my steps enny more. bimeby +the town clock struck 12 oh clock and so it was morning and so we tost +up to see whether Beany shood wait til i got in my house or i shood go +over to Beanys to wait til Beany got into his house ferst. i lost jest +as i always do and so i had to go over to Beanys and he tride the door +and it was unlocked and so Beany he went in and i hipered acrost the +road as quick as i cood and went in the back way. i wasent afrade only i +wasent going to have Beany beat me in geting into bed. i went up stairs +as esy as i cood but when i went by mothers room she said is that you +Harry and i said yes and she said are you going out agen and i said no +it is morning now and i am going to bed and she laffed and said good +mornin. then i piled into bed and dident wake up til 10 oh clock. Beany +dident get up til 12 oh clock. father saved a mans life today in Boston. +he was a old man whitch tride to get on a train whitch had started and +father saw he was going to tumble of and get killed and he run and +grabed him and the old man tride to pull away and holered and the trane +was going faster and father had to run and push the old man and he +grabed him by the seet of his britches and give him a hist and piched +him rite into the door of the car and then father he gumped of. evrybody +said the old man wood be killed if it hadent been for father. + +Aug. 31. i bet Beanys father never saved a mans life. i bet Pewts never +did neether. i asked father if he xpected the old man to give him a good +deel of mony for it or a gold wach, and father he said the conscenceless +of having did a noble act is enuf reward. Gosh if i had saved a old mans +life i wood have made him pay me. i wood have grabed him and said old +man pay me 2 dolars or of goes your hind legs. i realy woodent let him +drop but i wood have scart him til he give me 2 dolars. father he said +that wood be hyway robery. i dont care. + +Sept. 1. brite and fair. they was a peace in the Boston paper today +about father. it said heroik rescu of a old man and it told about father +saving the old mans life. lots of peeple spoke to father about it. +father walked down town tonite 3 times. he most never goes down. father +is going to take me to Boston tomorow if i behaive myself and dont do as +i did before. + +Sept. 2, 186- i had to get up feerful erly this morning. after brekfast +me and father rode up to the depo in Joe Parmers hack. while we was +wating for the trane Charles Talor and Charles Gray and all the fellers +began to pich into father jest fun like and father got the best of them +evry time. You cood here them holler about a mile. then the trane come +and we piled in. evrybody knowed father and called him George and +evrybody piched into him and he ansered back so that he made evrybody +laff. that was the way it was all the way to Boston. when we got to +Boston we went into a bird store and staid a while and then father took +me out to see a house with a canon ball in it where the british had +fired it in the revolution. then we went down to the custum house where +father wirks and father took of his coat and put on a thin coat and put +on sum cuffs made of pastbord and then he took out sum big books and +begun to wright. he give me a sheet of yellow paper and a pensil and +told me i cood draw sum pictures. when he come in one man holered hullo +George what are you going to do with the boy, drownd him, and father he +said no but i wood if he dident amount to more then you have, and then +that man he shet up and a nother man he holered George have you saved +enny more peeple and father he said no i had a chanse to but his name +was Mudge and i let them hang him, and then that man he shet up. his +name was Mudge two. bimeby a man come in with specks and side wiskers +and sum papers and a squint eye, and he come up to fathers desk and +father took the papers and wile he was wrighting i drawd the man with +his specks and his old side wiskers and his squint eye. when father had +fixed his papers the man said is that your boy mister Shute and he said +yes and the man said can he draw and father said yes and he took the +paper before i cood grab it and give it to the man and the man looked at +it and begun to look mad and father said what is it and he showed it to +father and then tore it up and went of mad. and father tirned red and +asked me if i dident know more then that. then father he picked up all +the peaces and we paisted them together and he showed it to the men and +they all laffed and said i was a buster. bimeby a man come in and said +that the naval oficer wanted to see father and father took the picture +and went in. bimeby he came back and said the naval oficer jawed him and +then he looked at the picture and laffed and said he wanted the picture +and he took it and told father he had better shet that boy up. then it +was dinner time and we went out and et dinner at a resterrant. i had +meat and bread and coffy. after dinner we went back to the offise and a +man come in and asked who was mister Shute and father said he was and +the man said are you the man whitch put a old man on the trane at the +depo and father said yes and i thougt the man wood give father a hundred +dolars or a gold wach and father looked as if he thougt the man wood say +noble man you have saved my fathers life, but the man looked mad and +said well sir you did a prety smart thing to throw a helpless old man on +to the rong trane and send him of 100 miles away from home and scart all +his peeple most to deth becaus they thougt he was merdered and cost him +3 dolars to telegraf and stay all nite and if you dont know more then +that you had beter soke your head. father he said what was the old fool +trying to get on the trane for if he dident want to go on it, and the +man he said he was trying to get of the trane and you woodent let him +and the man holered so loud that evrybody cood hear him and shook his +fist and went of swaring feerful. then Mr. Pope he said o what a fall +was there my countrymen just like what was in the fourth reader and Mr. +Davis he said immortal seezer ded and tirned to clay, that is in the +fourth reader two. then all the men laffed and said the treat is on you +George and father he laffed two and said he wood be cussed, and he said +that is what a man got by not tending to his own bizness. tonites paper +had a peace in it about father and said the old man whitch father put on +the rong trane was going to be marrid and his girl got mad becaus he +dident come and marrid another man whitch was there and the old man was +going to sew father for braking up the mach. father said he bet Ben +Ridwill and Jaky Howe rote it for the paper and he wood fix them. + +Sept. 3. brite and fair. sunday today but father dident go to walk. he +was prety cross two. Beany got sent out of sunday school for raising +time. after he went out he clim up to the window and made up feerful +faces at us. mister Erl the suprintendunt was jest going to make a +prayer and see us laffin and see Beany before Beany cood gump down and +he grabed his cane and run out of the sunday school and chased Beany +down to Gim Elersons. Beany cant come agen. i wish i was Beany. + +Sept. 4. clowdy but no rane. school begins today, gosh. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of 'Sequil', by Henry A. 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