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cood jest get hold of it a little and when he swung it round his
head it sliped and hit Ticky on his head, and he piched into Beany and
jest as they was fiting good the bell rang. that is jest the way. something
always stops the good fites. i bet on Beany.
Sept. 17. Brite and fair. the stewdcats have got back long ago--i forgot
to wright that in. they are some new fellers not enny biger then i am.
Honey Donovan licked one of them easy and made him ball like a baby.
Chitter Robinson and a stewdcat named Hall had a fite on the Plains
and neether licked. they fit until they was tired out, and Darlinton a big
stewdcat came up and stoped them. they aint much fun in going to
school now. all the girls go to school in the libary bilding and they is
nobody but fellers in the grammer school. i tell you it is pretty loansom.
we fellers dont care mutch if they miss in there lessons.
Sept. 18. Brite and fair. after school today me and Beany and Fatty and
Nibby and Lees Moses and Whacker went home by the libary building,
when the girls came out they dident pay enny attension to us becaus the
high school fellers was there. perhaps they will want to slide on our
sleds next winter and then i gess they will find out something.
Sept. 19, 186- Brite and fair. went to church in the morning and to
sunday school in the afternoon. i have got a new pair of britches. old
Missis Stickny made them out of a old pair of fathers. they wasent very
old becaus they was made out of the same blew coat that father had
when he was going to make his speach when old Dirgin put me out of
the town hall. father sed he wood never ware them britches ennymore.
they was too tite, and his new boots was too tite two, and so he giv
them to me, only i cood have the britches made smaler and i coodent
have the boots made smaler so i will have to wate a long time before i
cood ware the boots. well after sunday school me and Bug and Cawcaw
and Pile Wood went down to the dam. they are having the dam fixed
and the water is auful low, rite below the dam they was some big
pikerel in a place where they coodent get out. well we took off our
shues and stockings and begun to wade in after them and they wood
dart round lively and we got pretty well spatered, and than i fell rite

down and got wet soping. after that i went rite in and we got 12 big
pikerel and we had 3 apeace. so i went home and i was afraid i wood
get a licking and i did two, for when i came in father said where in
thunder have you been and i told him and said here are some good
pikerel for supper and he said i will atend to you sir, and he took me up
stairs and gave me a whaling. gosh you bet it hurt. well then he told me
to go to bed and said i coodent have my supper, and when i took of my
close my legs were all blew and i called mother up to see how i was
black and blew and when she came up she said for mersy sakes, the
coler has all come out of your pants and you are all chekered blew, so i
tride to wash it of, and it woodent come of. so i went to bed and i felt
auful hungry and i cood hear them at supper and i could smell beefstake
and i almost wished father was ded, and when it was almost dark
mother come up with a tray and she had fride one of the pikerel and had
some tost and a baked potato and i set up and had a buly supper. mother
wasent mad a bit with me but she told me i did rong but she gessed i
got my pay for it and i gess i did. mother is jest as good as she can be.
Sept. 20. Brite and fair. the coler hasent gone of my legs yet. tonite
father took me down to Erl and Cuts where he got the coat that my
britches was made out of and told Erl about it and made me show my
legs, and Erl said i gess George, the cloth hadent been spunged, and
father said i dont know about the cloth, but he was spunged most damly
when he got them. and mister Erl