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that you had better shet up. so i shet up.
Oct. 13. clowdy but no rane. Georgie has lerned a new tune. it is i wood
i were a fary queen. we are going to have the minister to supper and

father is going to make Keene and Cele and Georgie show of. i hate
showing of. ennyway i havent got to show of becaus father says i cant
sing. i can sing but he dont know it you bet.
Oct. 14. rany and windy. i have got a sore throte. father dident want to
have the minister to supper. he said to mother, what in thunder do you
want a minister for, and mother said, we must have him becaus he will
think it very queer if we dont, only you must be careful not to say or do
ennything queer, and father he said he wood keep his eye peeled, but he
told mother she must look out for the children.
Oct. 15. still rany, my throte is beter. we are going to have chicking for
supper when the minister comes. tonite father brought some new
goblets from boston. mother and aunt Sarah wirked all day making pies
and cake. then mother let me lite a paper and hold the chickings over it
to burn of the little fethers and hairs i like it becaus it smels like
thanksgiving only i burnt my hand and it smelt jest like the chicking
but i dident like that you bet.
Oct. 16, 186- today the hole town was full of ministers, most of them
had long tailed coats and white necktis. Deekon Gooch came down to
the house with 2 of them. aunt Sarah was wating in her best dress and
when she saw them coming she said Murder Joanna they is 2 of them,
what shall we do, and mother said, mercy sakes what will George say.
well the bell rung and i went to the door and asked them in and Deekon
Gooch said they was Mister Fernald and Mister Robinson, he said they
was his brothers. then Deekon he went off and i showed them to the
front room up stairs and one of them asked me if i loved the lord and i
said yes sir and he said i was a good boy. and then he asked me if i
went to church and sunday school and i said yes sir and he asked me
what was the tex last sunday and i said i dident know what tex ment
and he said what did he prech from and i said he preeched from the
pulpit in church and from the platform in sunday school, and Mister
Fernald he began to laff and Mister Robinson he said i woodent laff if i
was you brother, and then he said what does the minister say after the
first prair and i said o yes i know now, he says we will now take up the
usual colection and then Mister Fernald laffed again, then Mister

Robinson he asked me how many sisters i had and i said 4 and he asked
if they went to church and i said Keene and Cele sing in the quire and
Georgie goes but Annie and Frankie and the baby was two little and
then he asked if father went to church and i said not very often, only
when Keene and Cele had to sing a duet, and then he asked me what
else he did sundays and i said sometimes he made viniger down celler
and sometimes he went over to see John Adams hens or down to Gim
Melchers shop or up to Hirum Gilmores, and he said it is very
deploorible is it not, brother and Mister Fernald he laffed again and
said he gessed he better not ask me any more questions, and perhaps
my father woodent like to have me tell all about him, and i said father
wasent afrade, and he said he dident give much for ministers ennyway
and then Mister Fernald laffed as hard as he cood and Mister Robinson
looked mad, then we went down stairs and they shook hands with
mother and aunt Sarah and Mister Robinson he set down by aunt Sarah
and asked her about the church and prair meetings and why she dident
always go and lots of things like that and Mister Fernald he got the
baby in his lap and he talked to mother about the children and told us
stories and he was jest buly. then bimeby father he came home and he
shook hands with them and he said he was glad to see them whitch was
a auful lie. then mother said super was ready and we all went in to
super and