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cuzon and is
older then i am and every time he comes he licks me. i dont dass to tell
becaus he is company. so this time i am going to get Gim Erly or Tady
Finton to lick him. he is coming next Saterday. he lives in a city and
wears a neckti every day and feels prety big and says i am a
countryman.
I see Gim Erly today and he says he will lick time out of Will for a nife

and a slingshot. i had lost my nife so i told Beany and he sed he wood
give Gim his nife if he wood let him see the fite. Will licked Beany last
summer and Beany aint forgot it. then i dident have enny slingshot and
so i told Fatty and Fatty he sed he wood give Gim his slingshot if he
cood see the fite. it seemed kinder mean not to tell Pewt, so i told Pewt
and he sed he would give me his fathers pigs bladder when it was killed
if i wood let him see the fite, that makes 2 bladders i am going to have
this fall. Oliver Lane is going to give me his, they will make bully
footballs. i gess i can get Potter to give me a leest flycatches egg if i
will let him see the fite.
Sept. 10. Brite and fair. Will Simpkins is coming tomorrow. i bet he
will wish he hadent after Gim Erly gives him that licking. Potter gave
me a red wing blackbirds egg and a chippys egg and 2 blewjays wings
to see the fite.
Sept. 11. Brite and fair. it was the best fite i have seen since Cris
Staples licked Charlie Clark you had aught to have seen it. Will came
this morning he was all dressed up and had his shoes blacked. i knew
that wood make Gim want to lick him. i felt kinder mean when he came
becaus he seamed glad to see me, and mother sed i hope you boys will
have a real nice time together, and i sed i gess we will. so after dinner i
asked him to go over to Beanys and we went over and Gim was there
and Potter and Pewt and Fatty and Billy Swett came with Fatty and he
wispered he wood giv me a whailbone bow. Gim sed to me easy have
you got them things and i sed yes and Gim sed no fooling and i sed
hope to die and i crosed my throte and i sed you have got to lick him
first and he sed he wood lick him. so we went over in the high school
yard to play prisners bass. well prety soon Gim sed Will cheeted, and
Will said he dident, and Gim sed do you mean to call me a lier and Will
sed he dident cheet and Gim sed he wood giv him a paist on the nose,
and Will sed he want man enuf and Gim scrached a line in the dirt and
told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his
sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off and Will sed if he hit
Gim he wood nock him so far he woodent come down at all and Gim
sed if he hit him there woodent be ennything left of him but a red
neckti, and Will told Gim he was a freckled faced mick and Gim told

Will he was a curly haired nigger and just then Fatty give Will a push
rite into Gim and they went at it and Gim licked time out of Will and
got him down and lammed him until he hollered enuf. then Will he
went home balling and i had to go two and when we got home mother
sed it was a shame and she wood tell father when he got home. when
father got home mother told him and sed it was a shame that Willy, she
calls him Willy, i am glad my name aint Willy, i had rather be called
Skinny or Polelegs or Plupy then Willy, well she sed it was a shame
that Willy coodent play with me without having that dredful Erly boy
fiting him and she wanted father to go up to Mr. Tucks where Gim
lives and tell him about it. Well father sed boys always fit and she
mustent wurry about it he gessed Willy wood get over it. but he told me
not to ask Gim Erly down here agen. so after supper when i had to go
for the yeest i ran up to Gims and giv him the nife and the slingshot and
told