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+Project Gutenberg's The Real Diary of a Real Boy, by Henry A. Shute
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+Title: The Real Diary of a Real Boy
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+Author: Henry A. Shute
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+Release Date: February, 2004  [EBook #5111]
+Posting Date: June 12, 2009
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE REAL DIARY OF A REAL BOY ***
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+Produced by Kent Fielden
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+THE REAL DIARY OF A REAL BOY
+
+By Henry A. Shute
+
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+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+In the winter of 1901-02, while rummaging an old closet in the
+shed-chamber of my father's house, I unearthed a salt-box which had been
+equipped with leather hinges at the expense of considerable ingenuity,
+and at a very remote period. In addition to this, a hasp of the same
+material, firmly fastened by carpet-tacks and a catch of bent wire, bade
+defiance to burglars, midnight marauders, and safe-breakers.
+
+With the aid of a tack-hammer the combination was readily solved, and an
+eager examination of the contents of the box disclosed:--
+
+  1. Fish-line of braided shoemaker's thread, with perch hook, to
+     which adhered the mummied remains of a worm that lived and
+     flourished many, many years ago.
+
+  2. Popgun of pith elder and hoop-skirt wire.
+
+  3. Horse-chestnut bolas, calculated to revolve in opposite
+     directions with great velocity, by an up-and-down motion of the
+     holder's wrist; also extensively used for the adornment of
+     telegraph-wires,--there were no telephones in those days,--and
+     the cause of great profanity amongst linemen.
+
+  4. More fish-hooks of the ring variety, now obsolete.
+
+  5. One blood alley, two chinees, a parti-colored glass agate,
+     three pewees, and unnumbered drab-colored marbles.
+
+  6. Small bow of whalebone, with two arrows.
+
+  7. Six-inch bean-blower, for school use--a weapon of considerable
+     range and great precision when used with judgment behind a
+     Guyot's Common School Geography.
+
+  8. Unexpended ammunition for same, consisting of putty pellets.
+
+  9. Frog's hind leg, extra dry.
+
+  10. Wing of bluejay, very ditto.
+
+  11. Letter from "Beany," postmarked "Biddeford, Me." and expressing
+      great indignation because "Pewt" "hasent wrote."
+
+  12. Copy-book inscribed "Diry."
+
+  The examination of this copy-book lasted the rest of the day, and it was
+  read with the peculiar pleasure one experiences in reviewing some of the
+  events of a happy boyhood.
+
+  With the earnest hope that others may experience a little of the
+  pleasure I gained from the reading, I submit the "Diry" to the public.
+
+  HENRY A. SHUTE.
+
+  EXETER, N. H. Sept. 23, 1902.
+
+
+
+
+DIRY
+
+Father thot i aught to keep a diry, but i sed i dident want to, because
+i coodent wright well enuf, but he sed he wood give $1000 dolars if he
+had kept a diry when he was a boy.
+
+Mother said she gessed nobody wood dass to read it, but father said
+everybody would tumble over each other to read it, anyhow he wood give
+$1000 dolars if he had kept it. i told him i wood keep one regular if he
+wood give me a quarter of a dolar a week, but he said i had got to keep
+it anyhow and i woodent get no quarter for it neither, but he woodent
+ask to read it for a year, and i know he will forget it before that, so
+i am going to wright just what i want to in it. Father always forgets
+everything but my lickins. he remembers them every time you bet.
+
+So i have got to keep it, but it seems to me that my diry is worth a
+quarter of a dolar a week if fathers is worth $1000 dolars, everybody
+says father was a buster when he was a boy and went round with Gim
+Melcher and Charles Talor. my grandmother says i am the best boy she
+ever see, if i dident go with Beany Watson and Pewter Purinton, it was
+Beany and Pewt made me tuf.
+
+there dos'nt seem to be much to put into a diry only fites and who got
+licked at school and if it ranes or snows, so i will begin today.
+
+December 1, 186- brite and fair, late to brekfast, but mother dident say
+nothing. father goes to boston and works in the custum house so i can
+get up as late as i want to. father says he works like time, but i went
+to boston once and father dident do anything but tell stories about what
+he and Gim Melcher usted to do when he was a boy. once or twice when a
+man came in they would all be wrighting fast, when the man came in again
+i sed why do you all wright so fast when he comes in and stop when he
+goes out, and the man sort of laffed and went out laffing, and the men
+were mad and told father not to bring that dam little fool again.
+
+December 2. Skinny Bruce got licked in school today. I told my
+granmother about it and she said she was glad i dident do enything to
+get punnished for and she felt sure i never wood. i dident tell her
+i had to stay in the wood box all the morning with the cover down, i
+dident tell father either you bet.
+
+December 2. rany. i forgot to say it raned yesterday too. i got cold and
+have a red rag round my gozzle.
+
+December 2. pretty near had a fite in schol today. Skinny Bruce and
+Frank Elliot got rite up with there fists up when the bell rung. it was
+two bad, it wood have been a buly fite. i bet on Skinny.
+
+December 3, 186- brite and fair. went to church today. Me and Pewt and
+Beany go to the Unitarial church. we all joined sunday school to get
+into the Crismas festerval. they have it in the town hall and have two
+trees and supper and presents for the scholars. so we are going to stay
+til after crismas anyway the unitarials have jest built a new church.
+Pewt and Beany's fathers painted it and so they go there. i don't
+know why we go there xcept because they don't have any church in the
+afternoon. Nipper Brown and Micky Gould go there. we all went into
+the same class. our teacher is Mister Winsor a student. we call them
+stewdcats. after we had said our lesson we all skinned out with Mr.
+Winsor. when we went down Maple street we saw 2 roosters fiting in
+Dany Wingates yard, and we stoped to see it. i knew more about fiting
+roosters than any of the fellers, because me and Ed Towle had fit
+roosters lots. Mr. Winsor said i was a sport, well while the roosters
+were fiting, sunday school let out and he skipped acros the street and
+walked off with one of the girls and we hollered for him to come and see
+the fite out, and he turned red and looked mad. the leghorn squorked and
+stuck his head into a corner. when a rooster squorks he wont fite any
+more.
+
+December 5. snowed today and school let out at noon. this afternoon went
+down to the library to plug stewdcats. there was me and Beany and Pewt,
+and Whacker and Pozzy Chadwick and Pricilla Hobbs. Pricilla is a feller
+you know, and Pheby Talor, Pheby is a feller too, and Lubbin Smith
+and Nigger Bell, he is'nt a nigger only we call him Nigger, and Tommy
+Tompson and Dutchey Seamans and Chick Chickering, and Tady Finton and
+Chitter Robinson.
+
+December 6. Gim Wingate has got a new bobtail coat.
+
+December 7, 186- Got sent to bed last nite for smoking hayseed cigars
+and can't go with Beany enny more. It is funny, my father wont let me go
+with Beany becaus he is tuf, and Pewts father wont let Pewt go with me
+becaus im tuf, and Beanys father says if he catches me or Pewt in his
+yard he will lick time out of us. Rany today.
+
+December 8. Skinny Bruce got licked in school today. Skipy Moses was in
+the wood box all the morning.
+
+December 9. brite and fair, speakin day today. missed in Horatius at the
+brige.
+
+December 10. Clowdy but no rane. went to church. lots of new fellers in
+sunday school. me and Beany and Pewt and Pile Woods and Billy Folsom
+and Jimmy Gad and lots of others. Mister Winsor dident teach today, gess
+they woodent let him on account of the rooster fite.
+
+December 11. My new boots from Tommy Gads came today. i tell you they
+are clumpers. no snow yet.
+
+December 12. Crismas is pretty near, dont know wether i shall get
+ennything. father says i dont desirve ennything. you can get goozeberrys
+down to Si Smiths 1 dozen for 5 cents. He has a funny sine it is
+
+ flour
+ meal
+ molasses
+ sugar
+ coffe
+ tea
+ spises
+ pork &
+ lard
+ salt
+ butter
+ ham
+ eggs
+ &so
+
+December 15. Fite at resess today, Gran Miller and Ben Rundlet. Ben
+licked him easy. the fellers got to stumping each other to fite. Micky
+Gould said he cood lick me and i said he want man enuf and he said if i
+wood come out behind the school house after school he wood show me and
+i said i wood and all the fellers hollered and said they wood be there.
+But after school i thaught i aught to go home and split my kindlings and
+so i went home. a feller aught to do something for his family ennyway. i
+cood have licked him if i had wanted to.
+
+December 16. Tady Finton got licked in school today. snowed today a
+little.
+
+December 17. rained in the nite and then snowed a little. it was auful
+slipery and coming out of church Squire Lane fell down whak and Mr
+Burley cought hold of the fence and his feet went so fast that they
+seemed all fuzzy, i tell you if he cood run as fast as that he cood run
+a mile a minite.
+
+December 18. brite and fair. nothing particilar. o yes, Skinny Bruce got
+licked in school.
+
+December 19. Cold as time. Went to a sosiable tonite at the Unitarial
+vestry. cant go again because Keene told mother i was impident to the
+people. i want impident. you see they was making poetry and all sitting
+around the vestry. they wanted to play copenhagin and post office and
+clap in and clap out, but Mister Erl woodent let them because it was in
+church. so they had to play poetry. one person wood give a word and then
+the oppisite person wood give a word that rimed with it. it was auful
+silly. a girl wood give the word direxion and then a stewdcat wood say
+affexion and waul his eyes towards the girl. and then another wood say
+miss, and another stewdcat wood say kiss and then he wood waul his eyes,
+and when it came my turn i said what rimes with jellycake, and the girls
+turned red and the stewdcats looked funny, and Mister Burley said if
+i coodent behave i had better go home. Keene needent have told mother
+anyway. You jest wait Keene, and see what will happen some day.
+
+December 20. Bully skating. went after school and skated way up to the
+eddy, was going to skate with Lucy Watson but Pewt and Beany hollered so
+that i dident dass to. John Toomey got hit with a hockey block rite in
+the snoot and broke his nose.
+
+December 21. Brite and fair. nothing particular to-day. nobody got
+licked. old Francis had his hand done up in a sling. he said he had a
+bile on it. i tell you the fellers were glad.
+
+December 22. Warm and rany and spoiled the skating. coodent do anything
+but think of Crismas.
+
+December 23. Saturday and no skating. went down to the library to get
+a book for Sunday. me and Beany were sticking pins into the fellers
+and making them holler and Jo Parsons the libarian jumped rite over the
+counter and chased us way down to Mr. Hams coffin shop. he dident catch
+us either. then we went down town and Billy Swett lent me a dime novel
+to read sunday. it was named Billy Bolegs a sequil to Nat Tod the
+traper. sequil means the things in Nat Tod that was not finished.
+
+December 24. Brite and fair. Crismas tomorrow. went to sunday school.
+Mr. Lovel is our teacher now.
+
+December 25. Crismas. got a new nife, a red and white scarf and a bag of
+Si Smiths goozeberies. pretty good for me.
+
+December 26. Crismas tree at the town hall. had supper and got a bag of
+candy and a long string of pop corn. Mr. Lovel took off the presents
+and his whiskers caught fire, and he hollered o hell right out. that
+was pretty good for a sunday school teacher, wasent it. Jimmy Gad et too
+much and was sick.
+
+December 27. Beany has got a new striped shirt not a false bosom but a
+whole shirt. Beany wont speak to me now. Lucy Watson has got a new blew
+hat with a fether. she wont speak to Keene and Cele eether. you jest
+wait Beany and Lucy and see.
+
+Jan. 1, 186-Had an awful time in school today. me and Cawcaw Harding set
+together. when we came in from resess Cawcaw reached over and hit me a
+bat, and i lent him one in the snoot, and he hit me back. we was jest
+fooling, but old Francis called Cawcaw up front to lick him. i thought
+if i went up and told him he wood say, noble boy go to your seat, i wont
+lick neether of you. anyway i knew that Cawcaw wood tell on me, and so
+i told old Francis i hit Cawcaw first, and old Francis said Harry i have
+had my eye on you for a long time, and he jest took us up and slammed us
+together, and then he wood put me down and shake Cawcaw and then he
+wood put Cawcaw down and shake me till my head wabbled and he turned me
+upside down and all the fellers looked upside down and went round and
+round and somehow i felt silly like and kind of like laffin. i dident
+want to laff but coodent help it. and then he talked to us and sent us
+to our seats and told us to study, and i tried to but all the words in
+the book went round and round and i felt awful funny and kind of wabbly,
+and when i went home mother said something was the matter and i told
+her and then i cried, i don't know what i cried for, becaus i dident ake
+any. father said he wood lick me at home when i got licked at school and
+perhaps that was why i cried. ennyway when father come home i asked him
+if he was a going to lick me and he said not by a dam sight, and he gave
+me ten cents and when i went to bed i got laffin and crying all to once,
+and coodent stop, and mother set in my room and kept her hand on my
+forred until i went to sleep. i drempt i was fiting all the time. when i
+get big enuf there is going to be a fite between me and old Francis, you
+see if there aint.
+
+Jan. 2, Me and Beany has made up. i told him i had ten cents and then
+he dident feel so big about his new shirt. ennyway we went down to
+Si Smiths and got a dozen goozeberries and then went down to doctor
+Derborns and got a glass of sody water and took turns drinking it and
+seeing which cood gulp the loudest. Beany beat.
+
+Jan. 3. brite and fair. Went down to Pewts tonite to make hayseed
+cigars. We made 5 kinds, hayseed, sweet firn, cornsilk, mullin leeves,
+and grape vine. my mouth taisted aufuly all nite.
+
+Jan. 4. brite and fair. Pewt dident come to school today. i gess he was
+sick. my mouth taisted aufuly all day.
+
+Jan. 5. clowdy and aufuly cold. Pewt came to school today and got a
+licking for puting gum on Nigger Bells seat. Nig set in it til it dride
+and then tride to get up and coodent. then old Francis come down the ile
+and snaiked Nigger out and when he see the gum he asked us who put it
+there. we all said we dident, but he licked Pewt becaus he had seen Pewt
+chooing gum.
+
+Jan. 6. it snowed last nite and today. Speaking in school today. i spoke
+the berrial of sir John More. old Francis said he never heard ennything
+wirse in his life. i hope he wont tell father. this afternoon we pluged
+stewdcats.
+
+Jan. 7. Ed Towle has got a gote. the fellers stumped me to hold him
+by the horns and he buted me over in the slosh. mother said i had no
+bisiness to be playing on sunday.
+
+Jan. 8. brite and fair. there is going to be a nigger show in the town
+hall tonite. father says i cant go becaus i sassed aunt Sarah. it is
+uncle Toms cabbin.
+
+Jan. 9. brite and fair. Beany went to the nigger show. he led one of the
+bludhouns in the prosession and got a ticket. Beany had on a red coat
+jest like the dogs. he said it was buly.
+
+Jan. 10. rany. Nipper Brown is the best scolar in my class. i am the
+wirst. i can lick Nipper easy.
+
+Jan. 11. brite and fair. After school me and Beany and Pewt and Fatty
+Melcher and Pozzy Chadwick and lots of fellers went skating on fresh
+river. i was skating backwerd and i got one leg in a eal hole, gosh the
+water was cold and before i got home my britches leg was all froze.
+
+Jan. 12. nobody got licked in school today, gess why, becaus there
+wassent enny school. old Francis was sick, i went skating.
+
+Jan. 13. brite and--no it was rany. had a speling mach today in school.
+Cele and Genny Morrison staid up til the last and then Cele missed and
+set down balling, and Genny beat. i cant stop to wright enny more becaus
+i am going to the levee with father.
+
+Jan. 14, 186- Went to a big levee last nite at the town hall. Bill
+Morrill and Nuel Head and Dave Quimby and Frank Hervey got it up. they
+had Hook and Pasons quadril band of Haverhil. father bought a ticket
+becaus he was in the custum house and has to be frends with people. it
+was splendid. most everybody went all dressed up in blue silk and red
+and crokay slippers. Ham Perkins and Charlie Lane and Charley Piper and
+Chick Randall and Dan Ranlet and Grace Morril and the Head girls and
+Sweat girls and Carrie Towle and Sarah Clark, J. Albert Clarks sister
+and the Melcher boys and they all hopped round pretty lively, i tell
+you. i staid until 12 o'clock and listened to the band. i never had so
+good time in my life.
+
+Jan. 15. i am all spekled over. mother says she is afrade i have got
+chicken pocks. i gess i have been in the hen koop to mutch.
+
+Jan. 16. the speckles have all gone of. doctor Perry says i et to many
+donuts.
+
+Jan. 18. brite and fair. yesterday to and day before yesterday i have
+forgot.
+
+Jan. 19. snowed all day. Me and Beany is mad.
+
+Jan. 20. father is sick becaus he et to mutch salt fish and potato and
+pork. he is auful cross and hit me a bat today becaus i left the door
+open. i gess he will be sorry when i am ded.
+
+Jan. 21. brite and fair. went to church in the morning and in the
+afternoon greeced some paper and trased some pictures.
+
+Jan. 22. i had to stay in the wood-box today for whispering to Whacker
+with the cover down. i like it becaus they is a peep hole in the box
+and you can see the fellers and they cant see you. by and by Gimmy
+Fitsgerald whispered and old Francis put him in to and we took turns
+peeping.
+
+Jan. 23. it raned hard all day and we had one sesion. Beany came over
+and we made up and plaid in the barn making fly boxes.
+
+Jan. 24. nothing much today, rany in the morning and froze at night.
+
+Jan. 25. brite and fair. everything was covered with ice and when father
+started for the depot he tumbled down the front steps from the top to
+the botom. mother says he went bumpity bump and his hat went one way and
+his dinner box went the other. i herd him swaring aufuly about that dam
+boy, and i gess he wood have come up and licked time out of me, but he
+had to hurry to get the train.
+
+Jan. 26. jest as soon as the skating comes it has to snow and spoil it.
+
+Jan. 27. i coodent go out of the yard this afternoon becaus i dident put
+ashes on the front steps before father fell down and so Pewt and Beany
+and Whacker and Nibby Hartwell and Diddly Colket and Nipper and Prisilla
+and Gim Wingit and lots of the fellers came over and we had a snowball
+fite. mother says she hops father wont keep me at home anuther
+afternoon.
+
+Jan. 28. brite and fair. it never ranes Sundays so a feller cant go to
+church.
+
+Jan. 29. Nothing puticular today. it always seams harder to go to school
+mundays, more fellers gets licked mundays than enny day in the weak. i
+got stood on the platform with my head in the corner for looking of my
+book today.
+
+Jan. 30. brite and fair. i have got a auful chilblane on my heel.
+
+Jan. 31. brite and fair. i was glad today was wensday in the afternoon i
+went skating. the students played baseball on the ice.
+
+Feb. 1. brite and fair. pretty soon it will be Washintons berthday, and
+then all the boys can ring the town bell at noon and at nite.
+
+Feb. 2. clowdy but no snow. tomorror will be saterday they is only
+2 days in the weak that is wirth ennything and that is wensday and
+saterday except in vacation.
+
+Feb. 3. Snowed like time all the forenoon. in the afternoon me and Pewt
+and Beany rolled up some big snowballs. then tonite we put all the balls
+together and made a big snowman rite in front of Mrs. Lewises front
+door. then we put a old hat on it and hung a peace of paper on it and
+wrote man wanted on the paper. tomorrow all the people who go to church
+will see it and laff becaus Mister Lewis got a devorse. they will be
+some fun tomorrow.
+
+Feb. 5. i coodent wright ennything last nite becaus i got sent to bed
+and got a licking. i tell you we got in a auful scrape. Sunday morning
+me and Pewt and Beany went out erly to see our snowman. he was there and
+when people began to go by they began to laff, and most of the people
+said it was the funniest thing they ever see and who ever put it there
+was a pretty smart feller. so we said we did it and Pewt said he thought
+of it ferst and Beany said he did, and i said i did most of the werk.
+
+Well, pretty soon some people came along and looked at it and said it
+was a shame and they went over to pull of the paper and she came out and
+see it, and she took a broom and nocked it over and broke it all up. and
+then she went rite down to my house to tell father. then she went over
+to Beanys house and then up to Pewts. well after church father took me
+over to her house. and Beany was there with his father and Pewt with his
+father. she said she wood have us arested for it. but they talked a long
+time and after a while she said if our fathers wood lick us and make us
+saw and split a cord of wood she woodent say no more about it. when we
+went out father said, i never see such dam boys did you Brad, did you
+Wats, and they said they never did. so we have got to saw and split that
+wood and we got licked two.
+
+Feb. 6. brite and fair. me and Pewt and Beany sawed and split some wood
+for Misses Lewis.
+
+Feb. 7. brite and fair. sawed some more wood, me and Pewt and Beany.
+
+Feb. 8. brite and fair. split some more wood, me and Pewt and Beany.
+
+Feb. 9. Fatty Melcher and Caw-caw Harding, Chitter Robinson and Medo
+Thurston helped saw some more wood.
+
+Feb. 10. Brite and fair. this afternoon Whack Pozzy and Boog Chadwick,
+Dutchy Semans, Nigger Bell Pop Clark, Shinny Thing and Pile Wood all
+come down with saws and axes and helped us saw that wood, we worked
+all the afternoon and got it done and piled up before dark. then Misses
+Lewis asked us in and gave us some buly donuts and some sweatened water
+and we sung and told stories and before we went we told her we was sorry
+we bilt the snowman and she said she was sorry two. then when we went
+away we give 3 cheers for her.
+
+Feb. 11. brite and fair. i shant forget last Sunday very soon.
+
+Feb. 12. rany today. i dont care becaus i havent got to saw enny more
+wood.
+
+Feb. 13. still rany. i dont care.
+
+Feb. 14. pretty cold today. going to have a new kind of speling mach
+tomorrow.
+
+Feb. 15. Got to the head in spelling today. old Francis makes us all
+stand up in the ile and gives us a lot of words to spell and then we
+wright them down on our slates and then the head feller or girl changes
+slates with the foot feller or girl and so on and then old Francis
+wrights the words on the blackboard and then we mark each others slates.
+John Flanygin was the foot feller and had my slate. well most of Johns
+words was wrong. but John marked mine all write. i gess John dident know
+it, but ther was 4 or 5 of my words speled wrong. i set out to tell old
+Francis but dident dass to becaus he licked me for teling that i paisted
+Cawcaw Harding that time. so i kept still and kept at the head and John
+kept at the foot. i hope John will do it again tomorrow.
+
+Feb. 16. Beat in speling today.
+
+Feb. 17. beat in speling today.
+
+Feb. 19. Beat in speling today. old Francis is a going to give a prise
+tomorrow. i told father i was pretty sure to get it and he said it will
+be the first one. Aunt Sarah asked him if he took many prises. and he
+said he dident get much of a prise when he got me. i gess he wont say
+that tomorrow when i bring my prise home.
+
+Feb. 20. i dident get the prise. you see yesterday John Flanygin spelt
+more words write than Gimmy Fitsgerald and Gimmy went to the foot. when
+we marked slates Gimmy marked 9 of my words wrong out of 20, and i had
+to go down most to where John Flannygin was. old Francis said he dident
+beleave i had aught to have staid at the head so long as i did and i was
+afraid he wood lick me and John but he dident. he said he was ashamed
+and disapointed in me but i gess he was not the only one who was
+disapointed. i had told Pewt and Beany i wood treat on what father wood
+give me for getting the prise. Pewt and Beany was both mad, and are
+going to lay for Gimmy.
+
+Feb. 21, i forgot to say what the wether was most every day this weak.
+it has been brite and fair most of the time, only it snowed two days and
+raned most of one day. brite and fair today and cold as time.
+
+Feb. 23, Clowdy and cold. Pop Clark had to crawl through a chair today.
+he went through so fast old Francis only hit him 2 bats. Tady Finton and
+Nigger Bell both got licked. Tady dident cry or holler a bit, but Nigger
+hollered just like a girl. i supposed Nigger was more of a man than
+that.
+
+Feb. 24, Beany and Pewt got punching today in school and old Francis
+made them stand on the platform with their arms round each others neck
+all the forenoon, i bet they felt pretty cheep. Brite and fair.
+
+Feb. 25, i have got a new pair of britches at erl and Cutts. i gess
+Beany aint the only one which has good clothes eather.
+
+Feb. 26. Nothing particular today. Went down to old Heads shop to see
+the stewdcats ride velosipedes. There is going to be a race in the town
+hall tomorrow night.
+
+Feb. 27. Father said i cood go to the velosipede race if i woodent miss
+splitting my kindlings for a week. i did miss them twice but mother
+dident tell him and if he dont ask her before tonight i am all right.
+
+Feb. 28. Last night went to the velosipede race. it was jest ripping.
+i got down before the door opened. Bob Carter came pretty soon but he
+woodent let us in until the ticket man came. Mr. Watson was the ticket
+man and he let me and Beany and Shinny Thing in free. they had a lot
+of seats in the center of the hall, and the rest round the edges, and
+a open track around the hall. On the platform set Bill Morrill and Dave
+Quimby and John Getchell and Eben Folsom. Most of the fellers in the
+race were stewdcats and most of the stewdcats and the girls had the
+seats in the center of the hall. The stewdcats who were to race were
+Stone and Stuart and Lee and Clifford and August Belmont and Swift and
+Nichols and George Kent and Cutler and Johnny Heald and Gear and Burly
+and Bob Morison. the townies were Charlie Gerish and Doctor Prey. each
+feller rode round the hall twice to get going like time, and then Dave
+Quimby hollered go and he had to ride around the hall until he had rid a
+quarter of a mile.
+
+When the stewdcats rode all the other stewdcats yelled and the girls
+waved their handkerchiefs and the band played and the excitement was
+dreadful.
+
+After a while Doctor Prey came out and all the townies got up and
+cheered and the band played the star spangled banner, because Doctor
+fit in the war, and Doctor took of his hat and bowed and then rode round
+like time. he rode faster than most every one of them except Stone and
+Stuart and Lee and Clifford and Belmont and Swift. i guess if Doc hadent
+fit so hard in the war he wood have beat them all. and then Charlie
+Gerish came out and all the townies hollered again and Charlie made his
+legs go so fast that they coodent hardly see them, and jest before the
+last time around his velosipede slipped and Charlie went fluking over
+three settees. he jumped on his velosipede again and went around with
+his britches all torn but he dident get around quite quick enuf to beat
+Stone, then the townies yelled and said it was a cheat and the stewdcats
+hissed, and some of the townies said they could lick the stewdcats, and
+the stewdcats said they wasent man enuf and it looked as if there was a
+going to be a row when Charlie Gerrish got up and said he was beat fair
+and there wasent anything to get mad about, and that he would like to
+shake hands with the stewdcat which beat him, and he wood like to race
+him another time but he coodent then because he hurt his leg, and then
+they shook hands and every one felt buly, and the stewdcats said hooray
+for Charlie and the townies hollered hooray for Stone, and Bill Morrill
+made a speech and give the prise to Stone and the band played and we
+all went home. i bet Doc. Prey and Charlie Gerrish can lick any two
+stewdcats in the hall.
+
+Mar. 2. i went to a show in the town hall tonight. it was a singing show
+called the haymakers. it was splendid. Mr. Gale got it up. they have
+been practising all winter. Alice Gewell was a dary maid and Charlie
+Lane was a katydid, and lots of others sung. it was splendid.
+
+Mar. 3. Cloudy but no rane. went down to Langley's store for some juju
+paste, saw a fite. Old Kize tried to arest Bill Hartnit and Bill lammed
+time out of him and after a while old Swain came up and arrested him.
+
+Mar. 4. Brite and fair. Went to church to-day, the fernace smoked so the
+people had to come home. They say they will have it fixed before next
+Sunday. i hope not.
+
+Mar. 5. School closes tomorrow. i got kept after school tonight for
+whispering to Cawcaw.
+
+Mar. 6. School closed today and we voted for prises. Mr. Gordon give 4
+prizes for the 2 best fellers and 2 best girls for the term. So we voted
+for them. Most of the fellers wanted to vote for Jenny Morrison because
+she was the prettiest girl there and can go the greeshun bend better
+than enny girl in the school. and most of the girls dident like Jenny
+Morrison and wanted to vote for Dora Moses and Mary Luverin, and the
+girls wanted to vote for Lees Moses because he was polite to them and
+rather go with the girls than the boys and we holler at him, but he can
+fite for i saw him lick Gim Erly one day, and Gim Erly can rassle better
+than enny one but Jack Melvil. well most of the fellows wanted to vote
+for Tady Finton or Pop Clark or Skinny Bruce because they never get
+mad or cry when they are licked and make lots of fun, but we knew they
+coodent get the prize for they are all the time raising time and getting
+licked and so we voted for Honey Donovan and Moses Gordon, and when the
+votes was counted Dora Moses and Mary Luvering got the prizes for the
+girls and Mose Gordon and Nigger Bell for the boys. That was all write
+about Dora Moses and Mary Luverin because they was the best girls and
+always went together, but we dident like it very well about Mose and
+Nigger, only we thought that so long as Mose's father give the prizes
+Mose ought to have one. i gess most of the girls must have voted for
+Nig, because they was mad with Lees Moses. i know what they was mad at
+too.
+
+Then the first class give old Francis a present of some books and
+when he turned over the leaves there was twenty dollars there, and old
+Francis was surprised and made a fine speech, and the people all clapped
+becaus he made such a good speech. i heard him saying it over the night
+before when i was kept after school. No school for 2 weeks.
+
+Mar. 7. When my father was a boy he was the best fiter in this town.
+
+Mar. 9. Went down to Fatty Melchers today to make a violin, we cut a
+piece of wood the shape of a violin then take some horsehairs and strech
+them over a brige and you can play a tune on them. in school i learnt to
+play on a piece of india rubber. you pull a piece of elastic out of your
+congres boot and hold it in your teeth and pull it tite and snap it with
+your fingers and you can play tunes that you can hear but no one else
+can. old Francis saw me snapping the elastic and came and took it away.
+i have got plenty more in my boot. i am saving money to buy me a cornet.
+when i get enuf i am a going to play in the band. +++
+
+Mar. 10. plesent day. old Si Smiths big white dog and a bull dog had an
+awful fite today. neether licked and they had to squert water on them
+to seperate them. they dident make no noise, only jest hung write on to
+each others gozzles. my aunt Sarah said it was dredful, and she staid to
+the window to see how dredful it was.
+
+Mar. 11, 186- Went to church in the morning. the fernace was all write.
+Mister Lennard preeched about loving our ennymies, and told every one
+if he had any angry feelings toward ennyone to go to him and shake hands
+and see how much better you wood feel. i know how it is becaus when me
+and Beany are mad we dont have eny fun and when we make up the one who
+is to blam always wants to treet. why when Beany was mad with me becaus
+i went home from Gil Steels surprise party with Lizzie Towle, Ed Towles
+sister, he woodent speak to me for 2 days, and when we made up he
+treated me to ice cream with 2 spoons and he let me dip twice to his
+once. he took pretty big dips to make up. Beany is mad if enny of the
+fellers go with Lizzie Towle. she likes Beany better than she does enny
+of the fellers and Beany ought to be satisfied, but sometimes he acks
+mad when i go down there to fite roosters with Ed. i gess he needent
+worry much, no feller isnt going to leave of fiting roosters to go with
+no girls. well i most forgot what i was going to say, but after church i
+went up to Micky Gould who was going to fite me behind the school house,
+and said Micky lets be friends and Micky said. huh old Skinny, i can
+lick you in 2 minits and i said you aint man enuf and he called me a
+nockneed puke, and i called him a wall eyed lummix and he give me a
+paist in the eye and i gave him a good one in the mouth, and then we
+rassled and Micky threw me and i turned him, and he got hold of my new
+false bosom and i got hold of his hair, and the fellers all hollered hit
+him Micky, paist him Skinny, and Mister Purington, Pewts father pulled
+us apart and i had Mickys paper collar and necktie and some of his hair
+and he had my false bosom and when i got home father made me go to bed
+and stay there all the afternoon for fiting, but i gess he dident like
+my losing my false bosom. ennyway he asked me how many times i hit Micky
+and which licked. he let me get up at supper time. next time i try to
+love my ennymy i am a going to lick him first.
+
+Went to a Sunday school concert in the evening. Keene and Cele sung
+now i lay me down to sleep. they was a lot of people sung together and
+Mister Gale beat time. Charlie Gerish played the violin and Miss Packerd
+sung. i was scart when Keene and Cele sung for i was afraid they would
+break down, but they dident, and people said they sung like night horks.
+i gess if they knowed how night horks sung they woodent say much. father
+felt pretty big and to hear him talk you wood think he did the singing.
+he give them ten cents apeace. i dident get none. you gest wait, old man
+till i get my cornet.
+
+Went to a corcus last night. me and Beany were in the hall in the
+afternoon helping Bob Carter sprinkle the floor and put on the sordust.
+the floor was all shiny with wax and aufully slipery. so Bob got us to
+put on some water to take off the shiny wax. well write in front of the
+platform there is a low platform where they get up to put in their votes
+and then step down and Beany said, dont put any water there only jest
+dry sordust. so i dident. well that night we went erly to see the fun.
+Gim Luverin got up and said there was one man which was the oldest voter
+in town and he ought to vote the first, the name of this destinkuished
+sitizen was John Quincy Ann Pollard. then old mister Pollard got up and
+put in his vote and when he stepped down his heels flew up and he went
+down whak on the back of his head and 2 men lifted him up and lugged him
+to a seat, and then Ed Derborn, him that rings the town bell, stepped up
+pretty lively and went flat and swore terrible, and me and Beany nearly
+died we laffed so. well it kept on, people dident know what made them
+fall, and Gim Odlin sat write down in his new umbrella and then they
+sent me down stairs for a pail of wet sordust and when i was coming up
+i heard an auful whang, and when i got up in the hall they were lugging
+old mister Stickney off to die and they put water on his head and lugged
+him home in a hack. they say Bob Carter will lose his place. me and
+Beany dont know what to do. if we dont tell, Bob will lose his place and
+if we do we will get licked.
+
+Mar. 12. Mister Stickney is all write today. gosh you bet me and Beany
+are glad.
+
+Mar. 13, 186- brite and fair. Mr. Gravel has bought old Heads carrige
+shop. he is a dandy and wears shiny riding boots and a stove pipe hat
+and a velvet coat and goes with Dan Ranlet and George Perkins and Johny
+Gibson and the other dandies. i went down today and watched Fatty Walker
+stripe some wheels.
+
+Mar. 14. clowdy. Elkins and Graves had an oxion to-night. Beany got ten
+cents for going round town ringing a bell and hollering oxion. i went
+with Beany and it was lots of fun. Beany wouldent treet. he says he
+is saving money for something. i know what it is it is a valintine for
+Lizzie Tole. it was mean of Beany not to treet becaus i did as much
+hollering as he did.
+
+Mar. 15. The funniest thing hapened to-day you ever saw. after brekfast
+me and father took a walk and then went and set down on the big school
+steps. father was telling me some of the things he and Gim Melcher used
+to do. father must have been a ripper when he was young. well ennyway
+while we was talking old Ike Shute came along through the school yard.
+Ike wears specks and always carries a little basket on his arm. he cant
+see very well, and father said to me, now you jest keep still and you
+will see some fun and when Ike came along father changed his voice so
+that it sounded awfully growly and said where in the devil are you going
+with that basket, and Ike was scart most to deth and said only a little
+way down here sir and father said, move on sir and move dam lively and
+i nearly died laffing to see Ike hiper. well after a while i see Ike
+coming back with old Swane and old Kize the policemen. i tell you i was
+scart but father only laffed and said you keep still and i will fix it
+all right. so when they came up he said to old Kize what is the trouble
+Filander and he said Mr. Shute here has been thretened by some drunken
+rascal, and father looked aufuly surprised and said that is an infernal
+shame, when did it happen Isak, and Ike said about fifteen minits ago
+and father said we have been here about as long as that and i dident see
+the scoundrel. how did he look Isak, and Ike said i coodent see him very
+well George but he was a big man and he had a awfu deep voice and father
+said did he stagger enny and Ike said i coodent see wether he did or
+not but i cood tell he was drunk by his voice. so old Swain and old Kize
+went down behind the school house and off thru the carrige shop yard
+to see if they cood find him, and me and father walked home with Ike to
+protect him and father said now Isak if ennyone insults you again jest
+come to me and if i can catch him i will break every bone in his body,
+and father and Ike shook hands and Ike shook hands with me and then we
+went home and father began to laff and laffed all the way home and then
+he told mother and aunt Sarah and they said it was a shame to play such
+a trick upon him and father laffed all the more and said Ike hadent
+had so much exercise for a year and it wood do him good and give him
+something to think about. ennyway they said it was a shame to teech me
+such things, and father said he would rather i wood be tuf than be like
+Ike, and Aunt Sarah said i never wood be half as good as Ike for he
+never did a wrong thing in his life, and father laffed and said he
+dident dass to for his mother wood shet him in the closet. it was
+aufully funny, but i gess they was right. i shall never be half as good
+as Ike. i wonder if old Swane and old Kize have caught that man yet.
+
+Mar. 16. Pewt dreened 18 marbles and 2 chinees out of me to-day. we was
+playing first in a hole. school today. sailed boats in the brook in J.
+Albert Clark's garden and got pretty wet.
+
+Mar. 17. Scott Briggam has got some little flying squirrels. he is going
+to get me one for thirty-five cents. i am going to take it out of my
+cornet money.
+
+Mar. 18. Father wont let me play marbles in ernest. it aint enny fun
+dreening a feller and then giving them back. i bet father didnt when he
+was a boy.
+
+Mar. 19. Scott Briggam brought my squirrel today and i paid him 35
+cents, 3 ten cents scrips and five cents. i have got it in a bird cage.
+
+Mar. 20. my squirrel got out of the cage last nite and father found him
+in the water pail drownded. father got up in the night and got a dipper
+and drank some water out of that pail, he dident eat any brekfast
+because he was thinking that the squirrel might have been in the pail
+then. i wonder if it was. ennyway 35 cents of my cornet money has gone
+up.
+
+Mar. 23. school today. went down to Pewts to draw pictures. Charlie
+Woodbury can draw the best, then Pewt, and then me. Beany dont like
+to draw. we was talking about what we was going to be when we grew up.
+Charlie Woodbury is going to be a picture painter, Pewt is going to be a
+lawyer, Potter Gorham and Chick Chickering are going to stuff birds for
+a living, Beany is going to be a hack driver, Gim Wingit is going to run
+a newspaper, Cawcaw Harding is going to be a piscopal minister becaus he
+says they only have to read their speaches out of a book, Nipper Brown
+is going to be a professer, Priscilla Hobbs is going to play a organ in
+the baptis church. Prisil can play 3 tunes now on a little organ. i am
+going to be a cornet player like Bruce Briggam. cornet players can go to
+all the dances and fairs and prosessions and are invited in and treated
+when people are married and they serrinade them at night, and they don't
+have to work either.
+
+Mar. 25. almost as warm as summer, went to church and Sunday school.
+Beany has got a job blowing the organ for Kate Wells. he only let the
+wind go out 2 times today. it was funny becaus when the organ stopped
+Mister Wood who was singing let out an auful hoot before he knowed what
+he was doing Beany will lose his job if he does it again.
+
+Mar. 29, 186- The toads has come out. fine warm day. me and Potter
+Gorham have been ketching toads this afternoon. they sit in the pudles
+and peep. folks think it is frogs but most of it is toads. Potter got
+23 and i got 18. tonite i put my toads in a box in the kitchen after the
+folks went to bed. in the night they all got out of the box and began to
+hop round and peep mother heard it and waked father and they lissened.
+when i waked up father was coming threw my room with a big cane and a
+little tin lamp. he had put on his britches and was in his shirt tale,
+and i said, what are you going to lick me for now i havent done nothing
+and he said, keep still there is some one down stairs and mother said
+dont go down George and father said, lissen i can hear him giving a
+whistle for his confedrit, i will jump in and give him a whack on the
+cokonut. i had forgot all about the toads and you bet i was scart. well
+father he crep down easy and blowed out his lite and opened the door
+quick and jest lammed round with his club. then i heard him say what in
+hell have i stepped on, bring a lite here. then i though of the toads
+and you bet i was scarter than before, mother went down with a lite and
+then i heard him say, i will be cussed the whole place is ful of toads.
+then mother said did you ever. and father said he never did, and it was
+some more of that dam boys works and he yelled upstairs for me to come
+down and ketch them. so i went down and caught them and put them out all
+but 2 that father had stepped on and they had to be swep up. then all
+the folks came down in their nitegounds and i went up stairs lively and
+got into bed and pulled the clothes round me tite, but it dident do
+enny good for father came up and licked me. he dident lick me very hard
+becaus i gess he was glad it wasent a berglar and if it hadent been for
+me it might have been berglars insted of toads.
+
+Mar. 30. brite and fair, went out with Potter Gorham. saw some toads 2
+robins and a blewbird. gosh it makes a feller feel good to see birds and
+toads and live things.
+
+Mar. 31. April fool day tomorrow. i am laying for Beany. old Francis
+licked 5 fellers today becaus they sung rong when we was singing speek
+kindly it is better far to rule by luv than feer.
+
+April 1. auful cold and rainy. i was going to wright a love letter to
+Beany and sine Lizzie Toles name to it but i told father about it for
+fun and he said that it was fourgery and that i cood be prostecuted and
+sent to jale. so i dident. tonite me and Beany rung five door bells for
+april fool.
+
+April 2. been trying to get rid of some warts. Pewt says if you hook
+a piece of pork after dark, rub it on the warts and say arum erum irum
+orum urum and nurum 3 times turn round twice and throw the pork thru a
+window, then the warts will all be gone the next day. me and Beany is
+going to try it tomorrow.
+
+April 3. brite and fair. dident get a chance to hook the pork.
+
+April 4. The band played in the band room to-nite. it was warm enuf to
+have the windows open and we cood hear it. i sat out in the school yard
+til 10 oclock to hear it and father came out and walked me home. Beany
+was mad becaus i cared more for the band than for getting rid of the
+warts.
+
+April 6. dident wright anything last nite, was too scart. i never was
+so scart in all my life before. me and Beany came awful near getting in
+jale. we dident know where to hook the pork. i went to our cellar but
+father was down there making vinigar all the evening, then we went to
+Beanys cellar but Mister Watson was sitting on the cellar door. so Beany
+told his father that a man was looking for him to see about a horse and
+Mister Watson started down to the club stable. then Beany hooked the
+pork and rubbed it over his warts and then i rubbed it over my warts and
+we said arum erum irum orum urum and nururn 3 times jest as Pewt said,
+turned round twice and i plugged the pork right threw a gaslite jest
+then the gasman came along, he yelled at us and jumped out of his wagon
+and went for us. we ran down threw the school yard as fast as we cood
+hiper. there is a hollow in the corner of the school yard by Bill
+Morrills back yard and there is a little hole in the bottom of the fence
+where the fellers crawl threw when the football goes into his garden.
+we skinned threw that hole jest in time. the gasman tried to crawl threw
+but he coodent, then he clim the high fence but while he was doing that
+we ran across the carrige factory yard and down by the old brewery up
+Bow street and home. i went to bed pretty lively and so did Beany. gosh
+but we was scart.
+
+April 7. One of Beanys warts has gone.
+
+April 8. brite and fair. my warts have not gone.
+
+April 9. brite and fair. my warts have not gone.
+
+April 10. Clowdy but no rane. my warts have not gone.
+
+April 11. rany. i have got 2 more warts. i gess i hadent ought to have
+broke that gaslite.
+
+April 12. i have got another.
+
+April 13. bully day. me and Potter Gorharn and Chick Chickering went out
+after toads today. i got 14 but i dident take them home you bet.
+
+April 15. Brite and fair. we all went to church today to see the Lanes.
+they come from New York and when they go to church everybody goes to see
+them. there was a boy with them named Willie. i bet i cood lick him.
+
+April 16. Nothing particular today. dont feel very well, kind of headaky
+and backaky.
+
+April 20. have been sick for 4 days. went to school monday and had to
+come home. when i got home i fell down on the steps and mother and aunt
+Sarah came out and got me in the house and put water on my head and
+rubbed my hands, and then the Doctor came and said, well Joanna,
+children are a good deel of truble and then he felt of my rist and said
+hum, and then he looked at my tung and said hum again, and then he pride
+open my mouth and looked down my throte and said hum, and then he pulled
+off my close and looked me over rite before mother and aunt Sarah and
+said well he aint spekled eny. then he said what have you given him
+Joanna and mother said, nothing, and the docter said, all right give him
+some more, and mother said i havent given him enything docter, and then
+he walked around the room and picked up some things and looked at them
+and then he gave me some of the wirst tasting stuff i ever took. then he
+said i gess he will be better tomorrow, and then he looked at some more
+things and went home. i dident sleep very well that nite but was auful
+hot and my head aked fearful. mother was in my room every time i waked
+up, and Sarah too. next day i had the docter again he looked at some
+pictures and things and told mother to give me some more. i always feel
+better when the docter comes in. he dont scare a feller to deth.
+
+Well the next day i felt a little better and tried to sit up and have
+my britches on, but i had to lay down again my head aked so, and after
+awhile my head felt better and as i laid there i could look out of the
+window and it seamed as if little chains that you could see through like
+glass, were floating up and down they were about an inch long. well i
+wached them till i almost went to sleep and jest as i was most asleep i
+heard Beany out in the street holler, say Pewt, did you know that Plupy
+is going to die, and Pewt said course i did, why dont you tell me some
+news, and Beany said i heard he swalowed a peach stone and Pewt said it
+was liver complaint, and then i heard some one say, you boys shet up.
+
+Gosh you bet i was scart. i hadent thought of dying. i began to howl and
+holler for mother. she came running in and i told her i was going to die
+and i told her about breaking the gaslite and a lot of other things
+and she told me the docter said i was getting better and i wood sit up
+tomorrow. well i better then and wished i hadent told mother about the
+gaslite becaus i knew she wood make me tell father. well mother set
+by my bed all the afternoon and read me some out of Billy Bolegs, jest
+think of her doing that, so when supper time came i et a lettle tost and
+had some current jelly. when father come home mother told him about the
+gaslite and all he said was i wood have to pay for it out of my cornet
+money. i thought he wood keep me in for a month. i gess mother must have
+talked to him.
+
+That nite father slep on a lounge in my room. i went to sleep most as
+soon as he come in. after awhile i dremp i was tied on a sawlog jest
+going nearer and nearer to the saw and the saw was a going skratch-zoo,
+skratch-zoo, skratch-zoo. well i tride to pull away but i coodent move
+and i tride to holler and i coodent make a yip, and jest before the saw
+sawed into me i woke up. gosh you bet i was glad, but the funny part was
+that i could hear the saw going skratch-zoo, skratch-zoo, skratch-zoo,
+and what do you think it was. it was father snoring. gosh you ought to
+have heard him. well at first i laffed, but by and by i wanted to go to
+sleep and father snoring so loud i coodent till mother came in and told
+him to go to bed and she laid on the sofa all nite. the next day i set
+up and had my britches on and set up to the window all day. i saw Beany
+and Pewt and i nocked on the window and waved my claw at them. i am
+going out tomorrow.
+
+April 22. i went out today. it was real warm. i dident go to church
+becaus i had been sick. i let my rooster out to fite J. Albert Clark's.
+they were fiting good when i looked up and there was father looking over
+the fence. he made me stop the fite and shet my rooster up. i wonder if
+he wood have stoped them if i hadent been there. i got 2 eggs today,
+the old brama that i swaped for with Ed Tole and a bolten gray that John
+Adams give me.
+
+April 23. i went to school today. i dident have to resite becaus i had
+been sick. if i dont get wirse i can goto Mis Packerds concert tomorow.
+hope it wont rane.
+
+April 24. brite and fair and it dident rane tonite, so i went to the
+concert. all the girls was flowers. Keene was a crocuss and had to come
+out and sing first becaus the crocuss is the first flower that comes
+out. she sung i am the first of all the flowers to greet the eyes of
+spring.
+
+Jenny Morison was a tuch me not and set in the top of a rock and
+sung tuch me not, tuch me not let me alone. Nell Tole was a piny or a
+sunflower i have forgot whitch. Jenny Morison and Keene and Nell Tole
+are the best singers for their size in town. father thinks Keene can
+sing the best. he feels pretty big about Keene. i told him so one day
+and he said he had to becaus i dident amount to enything. i think Jenny
+Morison can sing the best but dont tell him so for he wood give me a
+bat.
+
+April 25, 186- Cant go down town for a week becaus i sassed J. Albert
+Clark, that is J. Albert Clark says I sassed him but i dident. Beany had
+been working for J. Albert raking up leaves in his garden. J. Albert
+was a going to give him 10 cents for it and me and Beany was a going to
+divide up on goozeberries and juju paist, but Beany dident dass to
+ask J. Albert for his pay because he had raked all the leaves under J.
+Alberts front steps and he was afraid J. Albert wood find out about it
+and not pay him. Beany wanted me to ask him but i dident dass to because
+i let my rooster out to fite J. Alberts last Sunday and J. Albert dont
+believe in fiting roosters. last night he was setting on his steps with
+some company and he had on his best lavender britches and his best blew
+coat.
+
+So Beany said, tell you what Plupy, you set on your steps and i will set
+on my steps and we will holler across the street about the money that J.
+Albert owes me. So Beany he went across the street to his steps and he
+hollered over, hi there Plupy have you got any chink, and i hollered
+back, no Beany i havent got a cent, and Beany he hollered i shood have
+10 cents if J. Albert Clark wood pay me what he owes me, and i hollered
+why in time dont he pay you, and Beany hollered i gess he hasent got any
+chink, and i hollered he has probably spent all his chink in buying them
+lavender britches, and Beany he hollered, well if J. Albert Clark needs
+the money more than I do he can have it. well while we was hollering
+mister Head and the Head girls who was setting on their steps got up and
+went into the house laffing, and the company at J. Alberts all laffed,
+and J. Albert came down and beckoned to Beany and Beany he went running
+over to get his 10 cents and J. Albert he said, Elbridge, that is Beanys
+name, Elbridge you cood have your money enny time if you had asked me
+for it decently, but now i shall not pay you for a week and i shall not
+imploy you enny more. Tell you what, Beany came over to my steps feeling
+pretty cheap and we was talking about it when mother called me in and
+sent me up stairs, and said she wood tell father as soon as he came
+home. So i went up stairs and looked out of the window jest in time to
+see Beanys father lugging Beany in by the neck. Well that nite after
+father got home he jawed me and said i coodent go down town for a
+week and made me go to J. Alberts right before the company and ask his
+forgiveness, and Beany had to to. J. Albert was a pretty good fellow and
+said it was all right, and dident want our fathers not to let us go down
+town, but father said i must learn to be respectable to my elders. Gosh
+we dident know J. Albert was a elder. We knowed elder Stevens and elder
+Stewart and deacon Gooch and we always was respectable to them, and if
+we had knowed that J. Albert Clark was a elder we woodent have sassed
+him for nothing.
+
+April 26. Yesterday and day before it was brite and fair, and yesterday
+was as warm as summer. today, it was cold and it snowed a little. jest
+enuf to make the ground look as if it was covered with salt. the birds
+looked all humped up. i bet the frogs hind legs is about froze. it is
+raining now. if i was a frog i woodent come out of the mud until summer.
+perhaps they cant stay under more than six months.
+
+April 27. Warm again. 2 eggs today. i have got another hen. Willyam
+Perry Molton gave it to me. it is a leghorn and his other hens licked
+it and made its comb bludy and so he gave it to me. it was on the nest
+today but did not lay. i went to church. Mr. Cram preeched. he talked
+all about birds and flowers and i liked it.
+
+April 28. brite and fair. all 3 hens were on the nest but dident lay.
+
+April 29. no eggs today. mother said the hens cackled all the morning.
+brite and fair.
+
+April 30. i dont see what the mater is with my hens. i havent got 1 egg
+this week. father said there was a rat in the koop. i got a steel trap
+of Sam Diar and tonite i set it in the koop. i put a peace of cheeze on
+it. tomorrow morning i ges mister rat wont steal any more eggs.
+
+May 1. what do you think. this morning i got up to get my rat and i
+found that my best hen, the bolton gray that John Adams gave me had
+tried to pick the cheeze out of the trap and the trap had caught her by
+the neck and killed her. i felt most bad enuf to cry. i thought i cood
+get up before the hen did. i went to the may brekfast today. it was
+may-fair day and they had a brekfast. me and Pewt, Beany, Whacker
+and Pozzy Chadwick, Micky Gould, Pop Clark, Prisilla Hobbs, Chick
+Chick-ering, Potter Gorham, Pile Wood, Curly Conner and all the fellers
+were there. we had a good time and et till just before school time and
+we had to hiper so as not to be late.
+
+May 2. no eggs today. both hens went on the nest. i am going to lay for
+that rat with my bowgun.
+
+May 3. what do you think. this noon i set in the hen koop 1 hour. the
+brama went on the nest and set a while and came off and cakled, then i
+looked and she had lade an egg. i left the egg there and hid behind a
+barrel and got my bowgun ready for the rat. well the leghorn hen went on
+the nest and i suposed she was a going to lay, but she broke rite into
+that egg and began to gobble it up. i was so mad that i let ding at her
+with the bowgun and just then she stuck up her head and the arrow took
+her rite in the back of the head. well i wish you cood have seen her.
+she hollered one little pip and then went rite out of the nest backwards
+and flapped round awful. i picked her up and she was dead. i dident mean
+to kill her, i only wanted to make her jump and learn her not to eat
+eggs. O dear, i dont know what father will say when he finds it out.
+
+May 5, 186- Saw a bully fite today. Cris Staples and Charlie Clark.
+Charlie is visiting his uncle J. Albert Clark, the feller that we
+sassed. that is he said we did but we dident. Charlie is a city feller,
+he lives in Chelsy and think he knows a pile about things and gets mad
+if we call him names. now every feller who amounts to anything has
+a nickname, and some of them have 2 or 3. my nicknames are Plupy and
+Skinny and Polelegs, and Beany is called Bullethead and sometimes Fatty.
+i told Charlie that if i called him Charlie the fellers would call him
+sissy or Mary and he better agree to let me call him bulldog or tomcat
+or diddly or gobbler or some nickname whitch wood mean something. but
+he said he would lam the head off of enny feller which called him names.
+well you jest see what trouble he got into for not having a nickname. he
+would have knowed better than that if he hadent lived in Chelsy.
+
+Well today me and Charlie was setting on his steps. Beany was mad
+because i was going with Charlie and he had gone riding with his father
+and he felt pretty big because his father let him drive. well while we
+were setting there along came Cris Staples who carries papers for Lane
+and Rollins store, and Cris hollered over, hullo Polelegs. Charlie
+hadent heard enyone call me Polelegs. and i said, i woodent stand that
+if i was you Charlie, now less see you lam the head off of him, and
+Charlie he started across the road and walked up to Cris and said who
+in time are you calling Polelegs and Cris wasent going to back down and
+said, you, and Charlie said jest drop them papers and i will nock your
+face rite off, and Cris dropped his papers and they went at it. it was
+the best fite i have seen this year. they fit from Mr. Head's down to
+Gim Ellisons corner, and Cris licked time out of Charlie, and Charlie
+began to yell and give up and then Cris let go of his hair and told him
+he was to smart, and that it was me he was calling Polelegs and not him,
+and he better not be so smart another time, and Cris he picked up his
+papers and went off with a great slit in his jacket and his necktie
+way round on one side, and Charlie came home howling and Aunt Clark,
+Charlie's grandmother came out and said, that is what you get Charlie
+for quareling. see how much better Harry feels, and i said, yes mam.
+Charlie is never going to speak to me again.
+
+May 7. Beany was pretty mad when I told him about the fite because he
+dident see it. i gess he will find it don't pay to get mad with me. i
+saw Charlie today but he dident speak. he has got a black eye. Cris has
+got a funny looking nose on one side.
+
+May 8. Chitter Robinson went in swiming today. i bet it was cold.
+
+May 9. Went down to the high school yard tonite to hear the band play.
+they have got a new leader a Mister Ashman of Boston. he can play the
+cornet with 1 hand. i went down today to pay the gasman for the gaslite
+i broke. it cost 1 dollar and i have only got 87 cents for my cornet.
+sometimes i dont believe i shall ever get that cornet. Scott Brigam can
+blow a bugle. a bugle is like a cornet only a cornet has 3 keys and a
+bugle is all covered with flappers and curly things where you put your
+fingers. Rashe Belnap can play a cornet splendid but he dont play very
+often. Frank Hirvey plays one that goes over his shoulder way behind his
+back. gosh i wish i cood get a cornet.
+
+May 10. father has found out about my killing that hen. he dident get
+mad but said i ought to have cut her head off and she wood be good to
+eat, but i supose it is to late now for it is almost a week ago and i
+burried her the next day.
+
+May 11. me and Potter Gorham went mayflowering today. i got a bunch
+and sold them to a student named Chizzum for 35 cents. i put it with my
+cornet money. i have now got $1.22. i can get a cornet for 25 dollars a
+second hand one. i am afraid i shall never get that cornet.
+
+May 12. Rany last nite and this morning. in the afternoon it cleared up.
+gosh i wish you cood see the licking Beany got tonite. me and Beany went
+out to go up to see Pewt and make some sweet fern sigars. Beany came
+over for me and went up to Pewts. on the way Beany went up an rung his
+doorbell and we hid behind the fence and Mister Watson, Beany's father,
+came out holding a light and shading it with his hand. the wind blew the
+lite out and in going in again he hit his head an awful bump against
+the door. me and Beany nearly died laffing only we tride not to laff
+too loud. well we went up to Pewts and Pewt had been sent to bed for
+something and so we started back and met a man who said is this you
+Elbridge, it was pretty dark and Beany said yes and Mister Watson
+grabbed us both by the collar and said, so you are the boys who rung my
+doorbell and then he give Beany a rap on the side of the head and began
+to shake him round lively and while he was shaking Beany up i put for
+home. i hid behind the fence and i cood hear him say i will learn you
+to asosiate with that misable Shute boy and wast your time ringing
+doorbells, and Beany was saying, o father i will never do it again. i
+nearly died laffing to hear Beany a rattling round on the sidewalk. i
+hope Mister Watson wont tell father. i gess he wont for he gets over his
+mad pretty quick. every time i think of Beanys legs flying round in the
+air i giggle rite out and when i think of Mister Watson bumping his head
+i nearly die. sometimes i think it pays to be tuff.
+
+May 13, 186- Keene and Cele have got some new crokay slippers. you bet
+they feel pretty big about it.
+
+May 14. nothing particular today.
+
+May 15. Went in swimming today. the water was pretty cold but i swum
+acros the river twise.
+
+May 16. the suckers have come. Potter Gorham caught three yesterday. me
+and Potter was going yesterday after school but father woodent let me
+becaus i dident split my kindlings.
+
+May 17. the band played tonight. father made me go to bed at nine but i
+cood hear it becaus my window is jest acros the road. they are playing a
+new peace. it is the woodup quickstep, they say Ned Kendall cood play it
+on a bugle better than ennybody. old Robinson cood and Mister Ashman can
+play it splendid. it goes
+
+ ta-ta tata, ta-ta tata, ta-ta tata
+ tatatatatatata.
+ ta-te-ta-te-tiddle iddle-a
+ ta-te-ta-te-tiddle iddle-a
+ ta-te-ta-te-tiddle-iddle-a
+ tiddle-iddle-iddle-iddle-ata
+
+it is the best peace they play except departed days. that always makes
+me feel like crying it is kinder sad like. i hope i can get my cornet
+some day.
+
+May 19. had a auful toothake today and had to go down to docter Pitman
+and he pulled it out. i tell you it hurt. Docter Pitman said the roots
+must have reached way to the back of my neck. Beany went with me and
+then told all round that i hollered. you jest wait Beany.
+
+May 21. erly this afternoon me and Fatty Melcher got some real segars
+at Henry Simsons store and went down behind old man Churchills store and
+smoked them. we were both auful sick and laid there all the afternoon.
+when i went home i walked wobbly and mother asked me if i was sick and
+she put me to bed and was going to send for the docter, but father came
+in and when he found out what aled me he laffed and said it served me
+rite. then after supper he set out on the steps rite under my window and
+smoked a old pipe and i cood smell it and i thought i shood die. then
+mother asked him to go away and he laffed and said all rite, but he
+gessed i had enuf for one day and she said she gessed so and i gess so
+too. he said if it hadent made me sick he wood have licked me.
+
+i dont see why it is so, father swears sometimes when he hits his thum
+with a hammer and once when he was in the dark he was walking towards
+the door with his arms out to feel for the door, one arm went on one
+side of the door and the other arm on the other side and he hit his nose
+a fearful bump rite on the ege of the door, and i wish you cood have
+heard him swear, well if i swear he licks me, and he smokes and if i
+do he says he will lick me and he dont go to church and if i dont go he
+says he will lick me. O dear i gess i wont smoke enny more.
+
+May 22. Went in swimming today twise, once down to the raceway and once
+up to the gravel.
+
+May 23. Went butterflying with Chick Chickering today, it is a little
+early for them, but we got two blew and black ones and three little red
+ones. Me and Chick are making aquariams. Chick has got a splendid glass
+one. i made mine out of a butter firkin. i sawed it off half way and
+then washed it out with soft soap and rensed it 2 or 3 times and then i
+put in some white sand and stones and i have got some little minnies and
+kivies and a little pickerel. it looks splendid and i change the water
+every 3 days.
+
+May 24. Nothing particular today.
+
+May 25. i can swim under water from the big tree on Moulton's side of
+the river at the gravel to the tree on the bank on Gilman's side. i went
+in 3 times today.
+
+May 26. My rooster is sick. he has et something. he sits all humped up.
+i went in swimming 2 times today.
+
+May 27. My rooster is pretty sick. i tride to give him some kiann pepper
+tonite. father said kiann pepper was good for sick hens, so i held his
+mouth open and give him a spoonful. when i let him go he kept his mouth
+open and sorter sneezed pip-craw pip-craw pip-craw, and then he went
+to the water dish and began to drink. i think he is better because he
+hadent drank any water for 2 days before. he was still drinking when i
+went away. i gess he will be a lot better tomorrow.
+
+May 28. What do you think, this morning when i went out to feed my hens
+i found my rooster dead. he had drank up all the water and he was all
+puffed up. i felt pretty bad. father says i gave him enuf kiann pepper
+for a horse. he aught to have told me. he was a pretty good rooster too.
+i am having pretty tuff luck.
+
+May 29. i read over my diary today. i have forgot to tell whether it was
+brite and fair or rany, i cant say now.
+
+May 30, 186- Nothing particular today. brite and fair.
+
+May 31. brite and fair. went up to Whacker Chadwicks today after school
+to help him plant his garden. we had about a bushel of potatoes to plant
+and it was fun to sit round a basket and cut up the potatoes. after a
+while Gim Erly and Luke Mannux cume along and we began to plug potatoes
+at them, they plugged them back and we had a splendid fite, me and Whack
+and Pozzy and Boog Chadwick on one side and Gim Erly and Luke Mannux and
+Bob Ridly on the other. Luke Mannux hit me twice rite in the back of the
+head. i am going up tomorrow to help them some more. went in swimming
+once to-day.
+
+May 32 no i mean June 1. i went up to Chadwicks after school. Captin
+Chadwick was there and they wasent enny pluggin potatoes. went in
+swimming.
+
+June 2. Rany. Beany is mad with me. i dont care.
+
+June 3. went to church today.
+
+June 4. clowdy but no rane. went up to Chadwicks today and sawed wood.
+Boog and Pozzy fit while me and Whack sawed wood then we went in swiming
+down to Sandy Bottom. some body tide some hard gnots in my shirt. i
+forgot to split my kindlings tonite.
+
+June 5. brite and fair. Beany is still mad.
+
+June 6. brite and fair. i know what Beany is mad about. he thinks i told
+about his getting a licking. i dident tell. he can stay mad if he wants
+to.
+
+June 7. father has bought a horse of Dan Randlet. i rode up to Brentwood
+with Sam Diar to get it. it is the prettiest horse i ever saw. i rode
+it down from Brentwood and it goes jest as easy as sitting on a spring
+board. when i got home Beany got over his mad and came over and i gave
+him a ride. me and Beany never were mad so long before.
+
+June 9. Rany. this afternoon me and Beany and father went to ride with
+the new horse. her name is Nellie.
+
+June 10. brite and fair. we keep Nellie down to Jo Hanes stable. Frank
+Hanes is learning me how to clean her off. she nipped my arm today and
+made a black and blew spot. went in swimming today.
+
+i have to get up every morning and harnes Nelly and drive father to the
+depot. i like it because i always race with the men coming down front
+street. there is George Dergin and Fred Sellivan and Gim Wingit and i
+can beat them all. i dont tell father that i race. i rode Nellie this
+afternoon with Frank Hanes and Ed Tole. i dident go in swimming today.
+
+June 11. brite and fair. Nellie kicked me today. i gess i scrached
+her today to hard with the curycomb. it dident hurt me much. i went in
+swimming twise.
+
+June 12. brite and fair. Me and Chick Chickering went bullfroging today,
+we got 3 dozen hind legs and sold them to Mr. Hirvey for 30 cents and
+took our pay in icecream.
+
+June 13. Rode Nellie this noon. i have to go to the half past five train
+every nite for father. i like to drive but i dont like to go every nite.
+
+June 14. Rashe Belnap and Horris Cobbs go in swimming every morning at
+six o'clock. i got a licking today that beat the one Beany got. last
+summer me and Tomtit Tomson and Cawcaw Harding and Whack and Poz and
+Boog Chadwick went in swimming in May and all thru the summer until
+October. one day i went in 10 times. well i dident say anything about it
+to father so as not to scare him. well today he did go to Boston and he
+said i am going to teech you to swim. when i was as old as you i cood
+swim said he, and you must lern, i said i have been wanting to lern to
+swim, for all the other boys can swim. so we went down to the gravil and
+i peeled off my close and got ready, now said he, you jest wade in up
+to your waste and squat down and duck your head under. i said the water
+will get in my nose. he said no it wont jest squat rite down. i cood see
+him laffin when he thought i wood snort and sputter. so i waded out a
+little ways and then div in and swam under water most across, and when i
+came up i looked to see if father was supprised. gosh you aught to have
+seen him. he had pulled off his coat and vest and there he stood up to
+his waste in the water with his eyes jest bugging rite out as big as
+hens eggs, and he was jest a going to dive for my dead body. then i
+turned over on my back and waved my hand at him. he dident say anything
+for a minute, only he drawed in a long breth. then he began to look
+foolish, and then mad, and then he turned and started to slosh back to
+the bank where he slipped and went in all over. When he got to the bank
+he was pretty mad and yelled for me to come out. when i came out he cut
+a stick and whaled me, and as soon as i got home he sent me to bed for
+lying, but i gess he was mad becaus i about scart the life out of him.
+but that nite i heard him telling mother about it and he said that he
+div 3 times for me in about thirty feet of water. but he braged about my
+swiming and said i cood swim like a striped frog. i shall never forget
+how his boots went kerslosh kerslosh kerslosh when we were skinning home
+thru cros-lots. i shall never forget how that old stick hurt either.
+ennyhow he dident say ennything about not going in again, so i gess i am
+all rite.
+
+June 15, 186- Johnny Heeld, a student, came to me and wanted me to carry
+some tickets to a dance round to the girls in the town. there was about
+1 hundred of them. he read the names over to me and i said i knew them
+all. so after school me and Beany started out and walked all over town
+and give out the tickets. i had a long string of names and every time
+i wood leave one i wood mark out the name. i dident give the Head girls
+any because they told father about some things that me and Beany and
+Pewt did and the Farmer girls and the Cilley girls lived way up on
+the plains and i dident want to walk up there, so when i went over to
+Hemlock side to give one, i went over to the factory boarding house and
+give some to them. they was auful glad to get them too and said they
+would go to the dance. some people was not at home and so i gave their
+tickets to the next house. it took me till 8 o'clock and i got 1 dollar
+for it. i dont beleive those girls that dident get their tickets will
+care much about going ennyway. i gess the Head girls wont want to tell
+on me another time.
+
+June 16. Dennis Cokely and Tomtit Tomson had a fite behind Hirvey's
+resterent today. Hirvey stopped them jest as they were having a good
+one. Thats jest the way. i dont see why they always want to stop a fite.
+All fellers fite for is to see which can lick, and how can they tell
+unless they fite it out.
+
+June 17. Brite and fair. They is going to be a big cattle show here this
+fall. They are going to have it in a field up by the depot. They are
+going to have horse trots and shows and everything. We are going to have
+no school. it dont come for an auful while yet. Charles Taylor is going
+to have Nelly to ride.
+
+June 18. Me and Mickey Gould had a race horseback. he had one of Ben
+Merril's little black horses, we raced way round Kensington ring. i cood
+beat trotting and he cood beat running. when i got home Nelly was so
+swetty that father told me not to ride her for a week.
+
+June 19. Went up to Chadwicks after school. Boog and Whack got Willie
+fiting with Johnny Rogers. Willie licked him. Willie is Whack's little
+brother. he is a auful cunning little feller. he can fite too. all the
+Chadwick's can fite.
+
+June 20. Brite and fair. i am going fishing tonite with Potter Gorham.
+
+June 21. brite and fair. went fishing today with Potter Gorham. i cought
+5 pirch and 4 pickeril. i cleaned them and we had them for supper.
+father said they was the best fish he ever et. i also cought the biggest
+roach i ever saw, almost as big as a sucker, and i cant tell what i
+did with him. i thought Potter had hooked him for fun, but he said he
+dident, and we hunted everywhere for him. i dont know where i put that
+roach.
+
+June 22. the students had their dance last nite. they had a auful time.
+some of the girls which dident get no tickets was mad, and the students
+which wanted them to go was mad and they went to Johnny Heeld and give
+him time. then he went round and told them how it was and give them
+tickets. well the nite of the dance everything was all rite until lots
+of people came which hadent been on the list, but which we had given
+tickets. well the students dident want to let them in and they were mad,
+and Chick Randal hit a student named Pendry rite in the nose and nocked
+his glasses off and Nichols nocked Johnny Lord way acros the entry and
+they was going to have a big fite when Bob Carter and 2 or 3 men stoped
+it. today Johnny Heeld came down to the house and said i had got things
+all mixed up and father made me give back the dollar. but he told Johnny
+Heeld he hadent ought to have let me try such a hard job. Gosh, i am
+glad father thinks it was a mistake, and dont know that i did it on
+purpose.
+
+June 23. there is a dead rat in the wall in my room. it smells auful.
+
+June 24. Rany. most time for vacation. the smell in my room is fearful.
+
+June 25. more trouble today. it seems as if there wasent any use in
+living. nothing but trouble all the time. mother said i coodent sleep in
+that room until the rat was taken out. well father he came into my room
+and sniffed once and said, whew, what a almity smell. then he held his
+nose and went out and came back with mister Staples the father of the
+feller that called me Polelegs. well he came in and put his nose up to
+the wall and sniffed round until he came to where my old close hung.
+then he said, thunder George, this is the place, rite behind this
+jacket, it is the wirst smell i ever smelt. then he threw my close in a
+corner and took out his tools and began to dig a hole in the wall, while
+father and mother and aunt Sarah stood looking at him and holding their
+nose. after he dug the hole he reached in but dident find ennything,
+then he stuck in his nose and said, it dont smell enny in there. then
+they all let go of their nose and took a sniff and said murder it is
+wirse than ever it must be rite in the room somewhere. then father said
+to me, look in those close and see if there is ennything there. so i
+looked and found in the poket of my old jaket that big roach that i
+lost, when i went fishing with Potter Gorham. it was all squashy and
+smelt auful. father was mad and made me throw the jaket out of the
+window and wont let me go fishing for a week. ennyway i know now what
+became of my roach.
+
+June 26. Keene and Cele are going to sing in the Unitarial quire. father
+says he will give them some bronze boots. mother got them some new nets
+for their hair today. girls has lots more done for them than fellers.
+
+June 27, 186- Brite and fair. school closed today. we dont have enny
+more school til September. snapcrackers have come. 8 cents a bunch at
+old Langlys store. Lane and Rollins sell them for 10 cents. torpedos 8
+cents a bunch. pin wheels 1 cent each. Pewt is going to have a cannon.
+father wont let me have a cannon. he says i dont know enny more than to
+look into it and blow my head off.
+
+June 28. clowdy but no rane. 4th of July pretty soon. father says when
+he was a boy all they had for fireworks was balls of wool soaked in
+tirpentine whitch they lit and fired round. i am glad i did not live
+then.
+
+June 30. clowdy but no rane. went in swimming 3 times today. i am going
+bullfroging monday.
+
+June 31. no July 1. Went to church today.
+
+July 2. i went bullfroging today. thunder storm today.
+
+i have got 10 bunches of snapcrackers and some slowmatch. i spent a
+dolar of my cornet money. i gess i shall never get that cornet. i hope
+it wont rane the 4th.
+
+July 3. Nite before 4th. Pewt and Beany can stay out all nite. father
+took my snapcrackers into his room and said if i get up before 5 i cant
+have enny.
+
+July 4. i am to tired to wright ennything. i never had so much fun in my
+life. i only got burned 5 times. 1 snapcracker went off rite in my face
+and i coodent see ennything til mother washed my eyes out. Zee Smith
+fired a torpedo and a peace of it flew rite in the corner of my eye and
+made a blew spot there. i fired every one of my snapcrackers. it took me
+all day.
+
+July 5. brite and fair. i dident wake up today til 10 o'clock. i was
+pretty sore and my eyes felt as if they was sawdust in them.
+
+July 6. brite and fair. father staid home today. i wanted him to go
+fishing but he woodent.
+
+July 7. father told me i cood go fishing and stay all day. i dont know
+what had come over him becaus most always he raises time when i go
+fishing and dont come home erly. so i went and cought 3 pickerels and 4
+pirch and 2 hogbacks and went in swiming 2 times. well as i was a coming
+home 2 or 3 people met me and said they was company at my house, so when
+i got home i skined in the back way so as not to see the company til i
+got on my best britches, but i met father in the door and he told me to
+go rite up to mothers room and see the company. so i skined up to her
+room holding my hand behind me becaus i had tore my britches auful
+getting over a fence and i dident want the company to see. well what
+do you think the company was. it was the homliest baby you ever see,
+it looked jest like a munky and made feerful faces and kinder squeaked
+like. Mother was sick and they was a old fat woman who told me to go
+out, but mother said she wanted to see me and she kissed me and asked me
+to kiss the baby. i dident want to but i did it becaus mother was sick.
+mother asked me how many fish i caught and what kind and i told her and
+said she shood have some for her supper, but she said she gessed she
+woodent have enny jest then.
+
+then i went down stairs and father did i like the baby and i said it was
+homly, and he said it was 10 times as good looking as i was and he said
+he was glad that when the baby grode up it woodent have Beany and Pewt
+to play with and woodent be tuff like me, and then Aunt Sarah said she
+gessed me and Beany and Pewt wasent enny tuffer than father and Gim
+Melcher were when they was boys, and then father laffed and told me to
+go to bed and i went. that was a auful homly baby ennyway.
+
+July 8. nothing particular today. you bet that baby can howl. went to
+church.
+
+July 9. brite and fair. most every morning we go up in mothers room to
+see the old fat woman wash the baby and hear it howl. it turns black in
+the face. i bet it will be a fiter.
+
+July 10. i have got a new nickname. it is yallerlegs. that is becaus
+father bought me a pair of kinder yellow britches, and made me wear
+them. i bet he woodent like to be called yallerlegs.
+
+July 11. brite and fair. went in swiming today to a new place. we call
+it the stump. it is up by the eddy.
+
+July 12. a thunder storm. in the afternoon went fishing but dident get a
+bite. Pewts father says fish wont bite after a thunder storm.
+
+July 13. a auful hot day. tonite i went up to the depot to see Majer
+Blake and Charles Tole fite over passengers to the beach.
+
+July 14. i am going to the beach to stop with Beany in his fathers tent.
+it is called hotel de pig.
+
+July 15. i gess i will go tomorrow.
+
+July 16. me and Beany went to the beach and stopped all day and all
+nite. we had a bully time.
+
+July 17. another hot day. went in swiming 4 times. my back is all
+burned.
+
+July 18. me and Beany got in the newsleter today. the paper said the
+Siamese twins was at the beach stoping at Watsons tent. Pewt was mad
+becaus we got in the paper and he dident and told all round that it
+dident mean me and Beany but Rashe Belnap and Horris Cobbs.
+
+July 19. Hot as time. nothing particular today.
+
+July 20. Hot as time. nothing particular today.
+
+July 21. Auful hot. big thunder shower and litening struck a tree in
+front of Perry Moltons house.
+
+July 22. Went to church. Beany let the wind out of the organ and it
+squeaked and made everybody laff. Keene and Cele sing in the quire.
+father feels pretty big about it.
+
+July 23. i got stung by hornets today. i went in swiming at the eddy and
+when i was drying my close i set rite down on a stump where there was a
+nest of yellow bellied hornets. they all lit on me and i thought i was
+afire for a minit. i ran and div rite off the bank and swam way out
+under water. when i came up they were buzing round jest where i went
+down. when i came out the fellers put mud on my bites and after a while
+they stoped hurting. i tell you the fellers jest died laffing to see me
+run and holler.
+
+July 24. Brite and fair. i was all sweled up with hornet bites but
+they dident hurt enny, i looked jest like Beany when he had the mumps.
+everyone laffed at me.
+
+July 25. i got a fishhook in my leg today. me and Fatty Melcher was
+a fishing when we got our lines tangled, i hollered first cut, but i
+dident have enny nife and Fatty woodent let me have his nife. So we got
+jerking our lines kinder mad like and all of a suddin the hook got into
+my leg. gosh you bet it hurt. me and Fatty got the hook out but it bled
+some. the worst of it was there was a wirm on the hook and when we got
+the hook out they wasent enny wirm there. Fatty says people sometimes
+dies from having wirms in them. i bet this one has crawled way in. it
+may grow inside of me. something is always hapening to me. when i got
+home i went down to docter Derborns store and bought some wirm medicine
+and swalowed sum. it was auful bitter. it cost 20 cents out of my cornet
+money.
+
+July 26. brite and fair. i was all rite today except my leg was stiff
+mother asked what made me lame and she put on a peace of pork. i told
+her about the wirm and she said the pork wood draw him out if he was
+there but she gessed he dident go in. when i told her about the wirm
+medecine she jest set down and laffed. so i gess i needent wory about
+having wirms. i went down to doctor Derborns and tride to get him to
+take the medicine back but he said he woodent. i think he is pretty mean
+not to.
+
+July 27. i coodent go in swiming today on account of my leg. all the
+fellers went in and i had to set on the bank and see them.
+
+July 28. Coodent go in swiming today either. my leg is nearly well.
+mother took off the pork today. it was all white where the pork was. i
+can go in swiming Monday. i went down to the library tonite. it is the
+first time i have been down since Joe Parsons chased me out. i gess he
+has forgotten it. i got out Bush Boys to read. it is a splendid book
+about shooting lions and zebras and gerafs and everything.
+
+July 29. i tried to have father let me stay away from church today
+because my leg was sore but he said all rite you can stay, but i gess
+that leg will be too sore to let you go in swiming this week. so i went
+to church and dident limp enny. this afternoon i set under the apple
+tree and read Bush Boys. father and mother went to ride with Nellie. it
+is the first time mother has been out. Aunt Sarah took care of the baby.
+they gess they will name it Edward Ashman Shute. i gess it is named
+Ashman after the leader of the band. i am going to tell him tomorrow and
+see if he wont sell me a cornet on trust. brite and fair.
+
+July 30. Brite and fair. i told father i was going down to see Mr.
+Ashman, and he said if you ever do i will lick you. the babys name is
+Edward Ashton Shute and not Ashman. i woodent name him for enny cornet
+player. it is pretty tuff luck. if i cood have got that cornet i woodent
+have minded a licking. went in swiming today.
+
+July 31. Franky had the croop last nite. i waked up and heard him cough
+auful funny and kinder as if his throte was tite. i called mother and
+she came in and hollered for Aunt Sarah and father and they rushed round
+lively and gave him egg and sugar and put hot cloths on his throte til
+he howled and after he cood howl he was all well. Aunt Sarah took him in
+with her the rest of the nite. father said i was a brick to wake up and
+call them. i dont know when he has called me a brick before. went in
+swimming 3 times to-day.
+
+Aug. 1. brite and fair. Annie tumbled down the front steps from the top
+to the bottom. she howled and mother thought she was about killed but
+she was so fat that she dident hurt her.
+
+Aug. 2. father came home early to-day and took mother and Aunt Sarah and
+Keene & Georgie to ride. Me and Cele staid to look after the house. Cele
+went up stairs to look after the baby and when she was gone i got Annie
+and Franky fiting. it was the funniest fite i ever saw. they jest pushed
+each other round and tried to claw each other. while they was fiting
+Cele came down stairs and pulled them apart and boxed their ears and
+made them go in different rooms. She jawed me and said she wood tell
+father. when father came home she told on me and father sent me to bed
+at six o'clock. You jest wait Cele and you will find out.
+
+Aug. 3, 186- brite and fair. the fellers played a pretty mean trick on
+me tonite. they played it on Nibby Hartwel last nite. Nibby is visiting
+his aunt and comes from the city and is pretty green like most folks
+from the city. you see if i hadent got sent to bed becaus Cele told on
+me i wood have been there and seen them play it on Nibby. well last nite
+all the fellers was out. Whack and Boog and Pozzy and Pewt and Beany and
+Nipper and Cawcaw and Pile and Chick and Micky and Pricilla and Fatty.
+Nibby he was there too. they wanted to play lead the old blind horse
+to water and i was to be the blind horse. they said they had some fun
+playing it the nite before, that was when they played it on Nibby but i
+dident know that. Well you blindfole a feller and give him a rope and
+a swich and the other fellers get on the other end of the rope and the
+feller nearest you has a bell and rings it and you pull and if you can
+pull him up to you, you can paist time out of him with your swich, only
+if you pull off your blindfole all the fellers can paist time out of
+you. Well they blindfoled me and hollered ready and i began to yank and
+pull and the feller rung his bell and he came pretty hard at first but
+i kept yanking and bimeby he come so quick that i nearly fell over back
+wards and i felt him and grabed him and began to paist time out of him
+when he grabed away my swich and began to paist me, and that wasent fair
+and i pulled off my blindfole and who do you suppose it was, well it was
+Wiliam Perry Molton and he was mad. they had tied me to his door bell
+and i had yanked out almost ten feet of wire. when i saw who it was
+gosh i began to holler and he stoped licking me. i gess he never licked
+anyone before because he dident know just how to lay it on. well when
+he found out how it was he let me go but he said he shood have to do
+something about the boys distirbing him so. it was a pretty mean trick
+to play on a feller. we are going to try and play it on Pop Clark
+tomorrow nite.
+
+Aug. 4. brite and fair. me and Hiram Mingo had a race today to see
+whitch cood swim the furtherest under water. i beat him easy. he can
+lick me but i can beat him swiming.
+
+Aug. 5. Nothing particular today. only church.
+
+Aug. 6. the baby was sick today had the doctor.
+
+Aug. 7. the baby was sicker. i dident go in swiming.
+
+Aug. 8. the baby is better today. i went in swiming 5 times.
+
+Aug. 9. Raned all day. The baby is all rite. i went bullfroging with
+Chick Chickering.
+
+Aug. 10. Nellie is sick. Joe Hanes cut a hole in her and put in a onion
+and some braded hair and then father took her out to pastur. i cant ride
+her for a month.
+
+Aug. 11. brite and fair. mister Watson, Beanys father got throwed off of
+his horse today and renched his rist. the horse coodent have throwed him
+but the gert broke. Mister Watson can ride splendid.
+
+Aug. 12. brite and fair. No more church this month. bully.
+
+Aug. 13. brite and fair. i went down to Ed Toles and me and Ed rode on
+the hack with Joe Parmer.
+
+Aug. 14. Ed Tole and Frank Hanes are mad. Frank hollered over to Ed,
+Ed Tole fell in a hole and coodent get out to save his sole, and Ed
+hollered back Frank Hanes aint got no branes. and then they was mad.
+
+Aug. 15. Wiliam Perry Molton has got some ripe apples in his back yard.
+me and Pewt helped him ketch some hens today and he said we cood have
+some apples if they was any on the ground. they was only 2 wirmy ones
+but before we left 5 or 6 fell off i gess it was because Pewt pushed me
+agenst the tree. they was pretty good apples too.
+
+Aug. 16. Rany. i went fishing with Potter Gorham. caught 3 roach and 5
+hornpowt. we et them for supper. father said i can clean fish most
+as well as he can. he says he will come home some day erly and go a
+fishing.
+
+Aug. 17. John Gardner has hung up a Grant and Colfax flag. they will be
+some fun this fall.
+
+Aug. 18. brite and fair. Today i went fishing with Fatty Melcher. we
+caught some ells and some hornpowt. ells and hornpowt can live a long
+time out of water and so when i got home i put 5 that were alive in the
+rane water barril.
+
+Aug. 19. brite and fair. it is fun to sit round all day Sunday and not
+have to go to church.
+
+Aug. 20. brite and fair. i had to spend the whole morning in going to
+the river for water for washing. it was wash day and when mother went to
+the rane water barril there was 5 dead hornpowt floting on the top. she
+made me tip the barrel over and get water from the river. they was some
+fun for Beany helped me and he stood in the hand cart and filled the
+tubs and all of a sudden i let go and the old cart flew up and Beany and
+the tub and the pail and everything went rite in. Beany isent going to
+speak to me ever again.
+
+Aug. 21, 186- Gosh, we are having fun now. what do you think. they is
+going to be a big mass meeting this fall. Ben Butler and Jake Ely and
+lots of old pelters are going to be here, and they is going to be 4 or
+5 bands and lots of fun. well before that comes they is going to be lots
+of political meetings and the first one is to be next week, and father
+is going to make a speach. Gim Luverin and Bil Morrill and General
+Marsten and Tom Levitt, and he is a ripper to holler. and they want
+father to make a speach. father says he must work for the party and
+perhaps he can get his salery rased. so he has been a riting every nite
+and mumbling it over to hisself and last nite he said he had got it.
+tonite he is a going to speak it to us.
+
+Aug. 22. last nite father studed his speach over and let us stay up
+to hear it. he stood up and looked auful stirn and put one hand in the
+buzum of his shert. i coodent help laffin, but he told me to shet up
+or i cood go to bed and so i shet up. i tell you it was fine. It begun
+Mister Moddirator had i supposed, or for 1 moment dremp that i a humble
+offis holder under this glorious government, wood have been called upon
+to speak, i shood have remained at home with my wife and my children.
+
+i said, if you dont want to make a speach why dont you stay at home
+that nite, and he said 1 more word from you sir and you go to bed. so i
+dident yip again.
+
+then he went on like this, were it not that a crool axident in my erly
+youth, in my far away boyhood days prevented me from voluntearing and
+desecrating my life to my countrys welfare, in the strugle jest ended
+i wood have poared out evry drop of my blud to have maintaned her owner
+and the owner of her flag. mother began to laff and said George how
+can you tell such feerful stories, you know you were scart most to deth
+becaus you was afraid you wood be drafted.
+
+father said they was a lot of old fellows traveling round the country
+and talking that way who coodent have been drug into the war with a ox
+chane. then he stood on the other leg a while and said, it is peculiarly
+aproprate that Exeter, the berth place of Lewis Cas, the educater of
+Webster, the home of Amos Tuck, of General Marston shood be fourmost
+in the party strife, and as for me i wirk only for my partys good, my
+countrys good, without feer or hope of reward. they was a lot more to
+it, and some of it you cood hear about a mile he hollered so.
+
+Aug. 23. We are all going the nite of the rally. mother says she wont go
+for she wood be ashamed to hear father tell such dredful stories. Aunt
+Sarah dont want to go because she is afraid father will brake down. but
+she has got to go with me and Keene and Cele and Georgie.
+
+Aug. 24. father practised his speach tonite and we all hollered and
+claped at the fine parts. he has got a new pair of boots. they hurt like
+time and he only wears them nites when he is practising his speach.
+
+Aug. 25. father licked me tonite becaus i spoke some of his speach to
+Beany. he was auful mad and said i was the bigest fool he ever see. the
+fellers have got up a Grant Club. Pricilla cant belong because he is a
+demicrat.
+
+Aug. 26. father called me and Beany out behind the barn tonite and gave
+us 10 cents apeace if we woodent say anything about his speach. after
+supper father practised again but he dident holler so loud becaus he was
+afraid some body wood hear him and mother dident want him to wake up the
+baby, and it was sunday too.
+
+Aug. 27. it has been brite and fair all the week and hot as time. i have
+to go to the river for soft water because it hasent raned eny since i
+had to tip over the rane water barril. i have got a little tirtle as big
+as a cent. father went down to General Marstons office tonite to arrange
+about the rally. he came home and practised about an hour. i gess he
+wood have practised all nite if the baby hadent waked up an hollered.
+
+Aug. 28. we are all getting ready for the rally. Keene and Cele and
+Georgie have got some new plad dresses. father has got a pair of gray
+britches and a black coat. mother said the rally was a good thing
+becaus it was the first time she had seen father dressed up since he was
+married.
+
+Aug. 29. they was a big thunder shower last nite. we all got up in the
+nite and went into mothers room. mother sat on the fether bed and all
+them that was scart cood set there. i wasent scart. father said it would
+be jest the cussid luck to have it rane the nite of the rally.
+
+Aug. 30. we had the last practise tonite, father put on his best close
+and new boots and the girls had on their plad dresses and i had on a new
+paper coller. we all set down and father came in and stood up. i tell
+you he looked fine. well he begun, mister modderater had i suposed or
+for 1 moment dremp, and then he forgot the rest. i tell you he was mad.
+i wanted to laff but dident dass to. well after a while he remembered
+and went through it all rite, and then he went over it 2 times more.
+gosh what if he shood forget it tomorrow nite. he is going to wright
+some of it on his cufs and he practised tonite making jestures so as to
+bring his cufs up so that he cood read it.
+
+Aug. 31. the rally is tonite. father woke us all up last nite hollering
+in his sleep. he dremp about the speach. this morning he went to Boston
+without eating his brekfast. i gess he is begining to be scart. i am a
+going to make his boots shine today. gosh what if he shood brake down. i
+gess i am getting a little scart too. brite and fair.
+
+Sept. 1. Last nite father came home and the first thing he did was to
+send me down to miss Pratts for his shert. it was all pollished and
+shone like glass. then he asked if i had blacked his boots and then he
+et supper. he dident eat much though. he said Mr. Tuck came down from
+Boston with him. Mr. Tuck was a going to make a speach first and then he
+was going to introduce Gim Loverin as chairman and then Gim Loverin was
+a going to call on father. father said he bet 5 dollars he wood call him
+Gim instead of mister modderator. father was pretty cross at supper. i
+gess he was getting scart. the baby began to cry and father asked mother
+why she dident choak the squawling brat and mother sorter laffed and
+put the baby into fathers lap and said i gess you had better choak him.
+father laffed and began to toss the baby up and down. he likes the baby
+and while he was playing with it he was all rite. but after supper he
+was cross and said he hed an auful headake. then he went practising his
+speach again so as not to call the modderator Gim. well we got ready and
+went down erly to get some good seats so as to hear father and see him
+come in with them that was to set on the platform. we wanted to go down
+with father but he said he coodent bother with us. but before we went he
+came down stairs with his new close on and he looked fine but his face
+looked auful white. he said he had a headake but as soon as he got
+started to speak it wood all go off. so we went down. Cele had her hair
+curled and Keene had a new red silk ribbon on her hair becaus her hair
+wont curl and Aunt Sarah had on a new dolman with beeds on it and some
+long coral earrings and they all looked fine. Aunt Sarah took Georgie by
+the hand becaus she was the littlest and me and Keene and Cele followed
+on.
+
+When we got there the band was playing in front of the town hall and
+aunt Sarah said i cood stay out and hear it and then said i cood sit
+with Gim Wingit and Willy Swet if i wood behave. i said i wood and we
+lissened and after the band went in we went too. most all the seats were
+taken and we got some bully seats way up in front. i looked for father
+but coodent see him becaus the speakers hadent come in. well jest as
+soon as we got in the policeman was up in front and he said they has
+been to much whisling and stamping and the next one that whisles or
+stamps will get put out. well they was old Swane and Brown and Kize and
+Dirgin and every body kept quiet. after a few minits the band began to
+play hale to the chief and the speakers came marching up the middle ile.
+i looked for father but he wasnt there. evrybody began to clap and stamp
+and Gim and Willy asked me where my old man was. i stood up to see if he
+was there and jest then i saw the policeman a rushing at me. he grabed
+me by the collar and shook me round till i dident know which end my head
+was on and he draged me down the ile and threw me out. as we were going
+down the ile i saw Aunt Sarah running down the other ile as fast as she
+cood go with her bonnet on the back of her head and Keene and Cele and
+Georgie following along all bawling. she got out in the entry jest as
+he was going to put me out of the front door and she grabed me away from
+him and said you misable cowardly retch to treat a boy that way. he said
+i whisled and she said he dident and you knew it only you dident dass
+take ennyone else.
+
+Then she told us to come home and we went home as fast as we cood all
+bawling. when we got home mother was sitting up alone and aunt Sarah
+started to tell her and Keene and Cele and Georgie all bawled and you
+never heard such a noise, and father was in bed with a headake and
+hollered out what in time is the matter. and she told him and i
+heard him jump out of bed and in a minit he came out buttoning up his
+suspenders. Mother said where in the world are you going George, and
+he said things is come to a pretty pass if a boy cant go and hear his
+father make a speach without being banged round by a policeman. i am
+going down to knock the heads off every policeman there. and he reeched
+for his vest. mother said George, dont you go near the hall, and father
+said he cood lick anny 2 men on the police force easy and he would show
+them how to slam people round and he reeched for his coat, and Keene and
+Cele and Georgia began to bawl again to think he wood get hurt and aunt
+Sarah and mother said you had better not go George, and father said he
+wood give them more fun in 5 minits than they had seen in a political
+rally in 5 years and he reeched for his boots and mother said what will
+they think of you after you have sent word that you are too sick to
+make a speach, to see you come rushing into the hall and go punching the
+policemen and father had got on 1 boot and when she said that he began
+to look kinder sick and said, thunder that is so. and then his headake
+got wirse and he gave me a twenty five cent scrip and Keene and Cele and
+Georgie ten cents each and he went to bed and so did we.
+
+i wonder if his head aked really so he coodent make a speach or if he
+was scart. i bet he was scart.
+
+school commences monday. father hasent asked once about my diry, so i
+aint going to wright enny more.
+
+
+
+
+THIRTY YEARS (OR MORE) AFTER
+
+On looking back over the pages of the "Diary" it appears to me that some
+sort of an amende honorable is due to those citizens now living, and the
+relatives and friends of those now dead, whose names have appeared in
+the "Diary" and who have, so to speak, been handled without gloves. That
+I have been neither mobbed, nor horsewhipped, nor sued, nor prosecuted,
+but that I have enjoyed many a good laugh with--and have received many
+pleasant words from--the victims, and their friends, is good evidence
+that they, and their more fortunate brothers who have not been therein
+mentioned, have taken the "Diary" in the very spirit in which it was
+published, that of affectionate and amusing retrospect. And it is indeed
+with affection that I recall those men, at that time in their prime.
+That I could not then understand the reason why they did not fully enter
+into and appreciate the spirit that prompted me and my boon companions
+to transgress so many rules, laws, and statutes is not surprising. Boys
+seldom can understand it. But, although I now fully appreciate it, I
+often wonder at the spirit that prompted so many of those men in after
+years to show me so many kindnesses, so much encouragement, and such
+great forbearance.
+
+So many inquiries have been made of me about that cornet, the
+soul-filling ambition of my early years, that I feel that the
+uncertainty in regard to that delightful instrument ought to be cleared
+up. I never did save up enough money to buy a cornet. I haven't to this
+day. But many years afterwards, when my ambition had been turned into
+other and equally profitless channels, upon the death of a dear friend
+his beautiful cornet was sent me. I have it now, as the neighbors and
+the members of my family can testify fully and with deep feeling, if
+called upon.
+
+H. A. S.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+
+A good many years ago, during my college days, it was my custom and that
+of my room-mate, Brown of Exeter, to make our room the gathering-place
+for Exeter boys, both "stewdcats" and homesick Exeter youths then
+filling positions in Boston. It happened that frequently undergraduates
+from other towns and cities came in at these Saturday evening gatherings
+and it was a matter of wonder to them that we had so much to talk about
+in relation to our native town; and it was their frequent remark that
+"either Exeter is a remarkable place, or you are a remarkably loyal set
+of fellows."
+
+That Exeter is a remarkable place is an axiom, and no better evidence of
+the fact can be found (were evidence necessary to sustain an axiom) than
+in the loyalty that every citizen displays, and the sincere love that
+prompts every one who has ever come under the spell of our dear old town
+to revisit her at every opportunity.
+
+Where else could a diary of this nature, dealing with actual persons
+and actual events, be published and be received with such absolute
+goodnature and even enthusiasm by the persons now living who are
+mentioned therein?
+
+It is therefore with affection as well as amusement that I append
+the following brief biographical sketches of persons mentioned in the
+"Diary," preserving as nearly as possible the order of their appearance
+in the book. As many readers of the "Diary" have expressed a desire to
+know more of the subsequent histories and achievements of those therein
+mentioned, it is hoped this information will satisfy a curiosity and
+interest which, to a loyal son of Exeter, appear quite natural:--
+
+
+1. Father. GEORGE S. SHUTE.
+
+A native of Exeter. For twenty-six years a clerk in the Boston Naval
+Office. Still living in Exeter, an old man with a young tongue; in fact,
+the quickest man at repartee in Exeter.
+
+2. Mother.
+
+My mother died in the winter of 1896. No words can do justice to her
+qualities. "A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath."
+
+3. "Gim" Melcher.
+
+An old friend of my father's. Died in Maiden a few years ago.
+
+4. Some of the men who were "wrighting fast" in the Custom House
+were the following:--
+
+GEORGE DAVIS, of Lexington, who a year ago celebrated his fiftieth
+consecutive year of service in the Naval Office; COLONEL IVORY POPE,
+of Cambridge; BENJAMIN A. SIDWELL, of East Boston; JACOB A. HOWE, of
+Maiden; FRANK HARRIMAN, a brother of the late Governor Harriman
+of Concord, N. H. HIRAM BARRUS, of Reading, Mass. deceased; C. C.
+WHITTEMORE, of Portsmouth, N. H.; CHARLES MUDGE, of Maiden; MATTHEW
+F. WHITTIER, of Medford, a brother of the poet Whittier, and a
+newspaper-writer of considerable prominence, writing under the pen-name
+of "Ethan Spike"; and TRISTRAM TALBOT, of Newburyport, with others
+whom the writer does not now recall. A few years later the writer spent
+several of his college vacations as deputy clerk in the same Naval
+Office, and made pleasant acquaintances with all of the above-named men.
+He found them very competent clerks, courteous gentlemen, and the best
+story-tellers that he ever knew, and recollects those vacations as very
+pleasant periods in his school life. Some of them still hold positions
+in the Custom House.
+
+5. Charles "Talor": CHARLES TAYLOR.
+
+A great friend of the family. Died in Exeter about ten years ago.
+
+6. "Beany": E. L. WATSON.
+
+In business at Williamstown, Mass. Attained his boyhood ambition and
+married Lizzie "Tole," Ed's sister.
+
+7. "Pewter": C. E. PURINGTON.
+
+My near neighbor, a decorative painter, who early displayed talent in
+this direction.
+
+8. "Skinny Bruce": WM. J. BRUCE.
+
+A tinsmith of Exeter who still thinks he could have licked Frank
+Elliott.
+
+9. Frank Elliott.
+
+A successful mechanic in Boston, who is confident that he could have
+licked "Skinny" Bruce.
+
+10. "Nipper": JOHN A. BROWN.
+
+Exeter. Chairman of the School Board. Trustee of the Seminary. Trustee
+of the Library. My room-mate at Harvard.
+
+11. "Micky" Gould.
+
+I do not know what became of "Mickey." Wherever he is, there is a
+good-natured, jolly man.
+
+12. Mr. Winsor.
+
+Address not known. How he could throw a snowball.
+
+18. "Ed" Towle.
+
+Exeter, N. H. With a keen memory for old days.
+
+14. "Dany" Wingate.
+
+A very prominent man. The father of J. D. P. and C. E. L. Wingate of the
+Boston Journal. Died at Exeter many years ago.
+
+15. "Whacker": COL. A. M. CHADWICK.
+
+Lowell, Mass.
+
+16. "Pozzy": AUSTIN K. CHADWICK.
+
+Lowell, Mass.
+
+Two of the best known and most respected citizens of Lowell. Dignified
+and sedate, but just touch on old Exeter days and watch their eyes
+twinkle and their tongues loosen.
+
+17. "Pricilla": PROF. CHARLES A. HOBBS.
+
+Boston. Has written some dreadful mathematical works, and revisits
+Exeter often, but not often enough.
+
+18. "Pheby": CHARLES A. TAYLOR.
+
+Has inherited the very qualities that made his father so good a friend.
+
+19. "Lublin."
+
+Address not known.
+
+20. "Nigger" Bell.
+
+So called because his hair was so very white. Professor of Chemistry in
+a Western University. Died recently in Maiden.
+
+21. Tommy Thompson: R. G. THOMPSON.
+
+New London, Conn.
+
+22. "Dutchy": DR. WILLIAM A. SEAMANS.
+
+New York City. Fullback on the Harvard '77 eleven. There are several
+ex-principals of the Exeter High School who will remember Thompson and
+Seamans in very clear and vivid colors.
+
+28. "Chick" Chickering: PROF. JOHN J. CHECKERING.
+
+Flushing, L. I. Commissioner of Public Education of New York State.
+
+24. "Tody": TIMOTHY FINTON.
+
+Exeter. An expert wood-worker with a leaning for politics.
+
+25. "Gim" Wingate: JAMES D. P. WINGATE.
+
+Winchester, Mass. The business manager of the Boston Journal.
+
+26. "Skipy": H. C. MOSES.
+
+Exeter. For many years in the wholesale wool business in Boston. One of
+the keenest sportsmen and best wing shots in New Hampshire.
+
+27. "Pile": JOHN G. WOOD.
+
+Chicago. Manager of the McKay Cordage Factory in Chicago. Promises to
+return to Exeter when he has made his "pile" ($100,000). From present
+indications, the prospect is favorable.
+
+28. Billy Folsom: WM. H. FOLSOM.
+
+Exeter. Member of the firm of E. Folsom & Co. Brass Works. One of
+Harvard's greatest pitchers.
+
+29. "Hoppy" Gadd.
+
+A very eccentric but sterling citizen, who could make cowhide boots
+which, like the panels in the "one-horse shay," "would last like iron
+for things like these." Died in Exeter a few years ago.
+
+30. "Si" Smith.
+
+The man with the "funny sine." Died in Exeter nearly thirty years ago.
+
+31. "Gran" Miller and "Ben" Rundlet. Addresses not known.
+
+32. Squire Lane.
+
+Died in Lynn.
+
+33. Charles Burley.
+
+Died in Exeter. For many years Treasurer of Phillips Exeter Academy, and
+Superintendent of the "Unitarial" Sunday School.
+
+34. "Keene": MY SISTER, MRS. C. E. BYINGTON.
+
+Exeter. A very able and accomplished woman. The one to whom all members
+of the family go when in trouble.
+
+35. Lucy Watson.
+
+Mrs. Frank Conner of Lynn.
+
+36. "Curley" Conner: MR. FRANK CONNER.
+
+Lynn. Husband of the aforesaid.
+
+37, "Jo" Parsons: MR. JOSEPH S. PARSONS.
+
+Boston. An expert bookkeeper.
+
+38. "Billy" Swett: MR. WM. SWETT.
+
+Jamaica Plain. I remember him as one of the most polite and affable boys
+I ever met.
+
+39. Mr. "Lovel," who said, "o hell": C. LOVELL, 2d.
+
+One of the best amateur actors and jolliest men I ever knew. Died
+recently.
+
+40. John Flanagan.
+
+Exeter. A tinsmith and co-laborer with "Skinny" Bruce.
+
+41. "Gimmy" Fitzgerald.
+
+Died at Exeter thirty years ago.
+
+42. "Old" Head: OREN HEAD.
+
+Many students will affectionately remember him. Deceased.
+
+43. "Bob" Carter.
+
+The old janitor of the Town Hall. Gruff, but very kind-hearted.
+Deceased.
+
+44. "Wats": IRVING M. WATSON.
+
+Father of "Beany," and pleasantly like him.
+
+45. John Getchell.
+
+A liberal, free, and kind-hearted Exeter merchant. Deceased.
+
+46. Eben Folsom.
+
+Uncle of "Billy," and head of the firm of which Billy is a member.
+
+47. "Charlie": DR. C. H. GERRISH.
+
+48. "Doc" Prey: DR. J. E. S. PRAY.
+
+Gentlemen both, of whom the writer can say everything good.
+
+49. Alice "Gewett," who was "a dairy maid": Miss ALICE JEWELL
+
+Instructor of singing in the schools of Exeter.
+
+50. "Old Kize": PHILANDER KEYES.
+
+A policeman of thirty years ago. Deceased.
+
+51. "Bill" Hartnett.
+
+Who used to make it lively for the last mentioned. A man of many good
+qualities notwithstanding. Deceased.
+
+52. "Old" Swain.
+
+A contemporary of "Old Kize," and a co-laborer in the same vineyard.
+
+53. "Mister" Gordon: HON. NATHANIEL GORDON.
+
+A retired lawyer of Exeter.
+
+54. Dora Moses.
+
+55. Mary "Loverin": MRS. MARY LETHBEIDGE.
+
+Two beautiful girls and inseparable companions, whose deaths were
+untimely and irreparable.
+
+56. "Cele": My sister, CELIA E. SHUTE.
+
+Exeter. A stenographer, and a writer of short stories for magazines.
+
+57. "Caxcaw" Harding: PROF. B. F. HARDING.
+
+Boston. An early advocate of those methods of instruction that result in
+"mens sana in corpore sano."
+
+58. "Doctor" Dearborn.
+
+A most eccentric old apothecary. Died in Exeter a few years ago.
+
+59. "Aunt Sarah": Miss SARAH F. SHUTE.
+
+Exeter. The favorite aunt of a large family, all of whose geese are
+swans.
+
+60. "Fatty" Melcher: F. A. MELCHER.
+
+Boston. So named because he was not fat.
+
+61. "Genny" Morrison: MRS. JOHN J. JOYCE.
+
+Andover, Mass. By not appearing at our Grammar School Reunion "Genny"
+disappointed five hundred people.
+
+62. J. Albert Clark.
+
+Exeter. One of the proprietors of the Exeter Machine Works. He has
+always had a very kindly interest in "Beany" and "Plupy," in spite of
+the many annoyances he suffered at their boyish hands.
+
+63. "Bill" Morrill: MR. WM. B. MORRILL.
+
+For many years selectman of Exeter. Died in 1878.
+
+64. "Dave" Quimby.
+
+Every student will recollect him. Died at Exeter recently.
+
+65. "Chitter"': JAMES ROBINSON.
+
+A truckman in Boston.
+
+66. "Boog" Chadwick.
+
+A New York broker, whose "heart's in the highlands;" to wit, Exeter.
+
+67. "Pop" Clark: WILL CLARK.
+
+Roxbury, Mass. A born comedian and a delightfully entertaining man.
+
+68. "Shinny" Thyng.
+
+One of the few Exeter boys who continues his father's business at the
+old stand. If more did the same, the prosperity of country towns would
+be assured.
+
+69. "Gim" Erly.
+
+Lives somewhere in the West.
+
+70. "Honey" Donovan: WILLIAM DONOVAN.
+
+Providence.
+
+71. "Mose" Gordon.
+
+A Texas cattle-man.
+
+72. Mr. Lamed.
+
+Unitarian clergyman. Deceased.
+
+73. "Gil" Steels.
+
+A merchant in Denver.
+
+74. "Mis Packer A": MRS. MARY PACKARD.
+
+A famous local singer, now living in California.
+
+75. "Gim Loverin": JAMES M. LOVERING.
+
+A very shrewd politician. Deceased.
+
+76. "Old Mister Stickney": JUDGE W. W. STICKNEY.
+
+With whom I studied law. Deceased; not, however, because of that fact.
+Judge Stickney was a sound lawyer and an upright, kind-hearted man.
+
+77. "Ed" Dearborn.
+
+The old bell-ringer. Deceased.
+
+78. John Quincy "Ann" Pollard: J. Q. A. POLLARD.
+
+A very old man, upon whom the boys were wont to play tricks, but who had
+developed wonderful precision of aim with a knotted cane. Deceased.
+
+79. Dan Ranlet; D. W. RANLET.
+
+Boston Produce Exchange.
+
+80. George M. Perkins
+
+For many years an expressman between Boston and Exeter.
+
+81. John E. Gibson.
+
+Master of the Agassiz School, Boston. Residence, Jamaica Plain. I take
+the opportunity to notify him that the Exeter High School holds its
+quinquennial reunion June, 1903.
+
+82. Isaac Shute.
+
+A retired merchant of Exeter. Deceased.
+
+83. Major Blake.
+
+A famous Boniface, and for many years proprietor of the Squamscott.
+Deceased.
+
+84. Charles D. Towle.
+
+An equally famous livery-stable keeper, who periodically fought to a
+finish with Major Blake for passengers to Hampton Beach. Deceased.
+
+85. Frank Haines.
+
+A farmer. Residence, Exeter.
+
+86. "The Baby": EDWARD A. SHUTE.
+
+Exeter. Who can now handle his elder brother with ease.
+
+87. "Frankie": FRANK F. SHUTE.
+
+Who thinks he can do likewise, but cannot. A hotel-keeper at Lakewood,
+New Jersey.
+
+88. "Annie": Miss ANNIE P. SHUTE.
+
+Who, by virtue of a clerkship in my office, owns the entire
+establishment.
+
+89. "Georgie"
+
+Instructor in Latin and French in the Albany Academy, Albany, N. Y.
+
+90. "Nibby."
+
+A summer visitor named Hartwell. Deceased.
+
+91. Hiram Mingo.
+
+A colored boy. Address not known.
+
+92. Joe Palmer.
+
+A hackman with whom the boys used to ride. Address not known.
+
+93. John E. Gardner.
+
+A member of an old family of merchants in Exeter. Deceased. Brother of
+Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, the artist.
+
+94. General Marston.
+
+A famous New Hampshire lawyer and veteran of the Civil War. Deceased.
+
+95. Amos Tuck.
+
+A famous lawyer, politician, financier, and Member of Congress.
+Deceased.
+
+96. Mr. Gravel.
+
+Address not known.
+
+97. Elkins and Graves.
+
+Famous auctioneers at that period. Deceased.
+
+98. Scott "Briggam."
+
+One of the boys then, one of the boys now. Exeter.
+
+99. Charlie Woodbury.
+
+Deceased.
+
+100. "Potter" Gorham: ARTHUR GORHAM.
+
+Killed by an accidental discharge of his gun nearly thirty years ago. A
+born naturalist.
+
+101. "Old Francis."
+
+For thirty-three years principal at the Grammar School at Exeter. On his
+resignation, a few years ago, a reunion was held which was attended by
+old pupils from every State in the Union, to do him honor. Still hale
+and hearty, and living in Exeter.
+
+102. Doctor Perry.
+
+An old family physician, who has ushered more children and children's
+children into the world than any man in the county, and who is beloved
+and revered by every one of them. Miss Jewett, in her "Country Doctor,"
+based her delightful description upon Dr. William G. Perry, her uncle.
+Living in Exeter.
+
+103. John Adams.
+
+Who his trimmed enough carriages to set all New Hampshire awheel, and
+who still practises his trade in Exeter.
+
+104. Nell Towle: MBS. GEORGE W. HOOPER.
+
+Exeter. As rosy, good-natured, and musically inclined as she was in the
+good old days.
+
+105. William Perry Moulton.
+
+A prosperous real-estate and insurance man, who unfortunately for
+his peace of mind tried to raise Bartlett pears, Concord grapes, and
+Astrachan apples in the neighborhood that was infested by "Plupy"
+and his associates; who frequently tracked, chased, and caught them
+red-handed, but who was too kind-hearted even then to deprive them of
+their ill-gotten gains.
+
+106. "Chris" Staples.
+
+Who remembers the fight with Charlie Clark.
+
+107. Charlie Clark.
+
+Deceased. Just before he died he read the "Diary" and sent word to the
+author that he remembered the scene in which he figured and much enjoyed
+the book.
+
+108. Mr. Ashman.
+
+A veteran band-leader of Boston.
+
+109. Frank Hervey.
+
+A veteran restaurant-keeper in Exeter. New living in Concord, N. H.
+
+110. "Rashe Belnap": WILLIAM H. BELKNAP.
+
+A retired banker and real-estate man of Exeter. Town clerk of Exeter for
+twenty-five years.
+
+111. Henry Simpson.
+
+Periodical dealer in the late sixties. Living in Maine.
+
+112. Luke Maniac.
+
+Now living in Texas. As a boy he could curve a snowball round the
+corner, like T. B. Aldrich's "Binny Wallace."
+
+113. "Bob Ridley": GEORGE ELLIOTT.
+
+Exeter. A right good fellow.
+
+114. Sam Dyer.
+
+A rather eccentric blacksmith. Died in the West.
+
+115. Horace Cobb.
+
+A good-natured, short, and extremely fat man. A native of Exeter, and
+last of a very prominent family. Died several years ago.
+
+116. Dennis Cokely.
+
+Address not known. I have always felt badly "to think the fight was
+throwed away, and neither of them licked."
+
+117. Johnnie Rogers.
+
+A cousin of the Chadwicks. Deceased.
+
+118. Cap. John W. Chadwick.
+
+A retired sea-captain. Father of "Poz," "Boog," "Whack," and "Willie,"
+"Whack's little brother." A most cultivated gentleman, whose heart was
+kind, but whose word was law. Deceased.
+
+119. "Zee" Smith: FRANK SMITH.
+
+Deceased in Lowell.
+
+120. Miss Pratt.
+
+A laundress much patronized by students. She accumulated much property
+by practising the gentle art of polishing shirts.
+
+121. "Old Durgin": ME. EZRA DURGIN.
+
+A rather quick-tempered but worthy policeman, contemporary with "Old
+Swain" and "Old Kize."
+
+122. Various "stewdcats."
+
+Who have played their parts and gone.
+
+123. "Plupy," "Skinny," "Polelegs": THE AUTHOR.
+
+De minimis non curat lex.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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