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father kept talking and telling stories until mother said
George and looked at him, and he shet up and turned red and then
Mister Robinson began to pray and all of us kept still but Georgie who
began to gigle, and mother looked scowly at her and she shet up two.
then father looked at mother and winked and i had to put my hand over
my mouth. mother she almost laffed to, and Mister Robinson he kept
on praying till bimeby Frankie he said Mama i wish that man wood
stop and Mister Fernald he began to coff i bet he wanted to laff. well
ennyway Mister Robinson he stoped. then father helped them to
chicking and bisket and gelly and coffy and everything and then he
helped us and we all begun to eat and bimeby Annie said we have got
some napkins tonite, and Frankie said we have got some little plates to
put the butter on, and i saw them first, and Annie said we have got
some new goblets two, so there, and Frankie run his tung out at Annie
and she made up a face at him, and then father told them to stop and
they stoped and mother and aunt Sarah turned red and Mister Robinson

he looked auful sollum and Mister Fernald looked funny and then he
looked at father an begun to laff and father laffed and then we all laffed
as hard as we cood, and Mister Fernald he said, dont mind a bit Missis
Shute, i have got children of my own, i like Mister Fernald. after super
Frankie and Annie were sent to bed and we went into the parlor and
father kept us all laffing telling stories, and then Keene and Cele sung
now i lay me down to sleep, and there is a bank on whitch the wild time
grows, and Cele sung flow gently sweet Afton and Georgie sung i
wood i were a fary queen, and then Mister Robinson wanted us to sing
a religous song and we sung shall we gather at the river. then they
asked me to sing and i said i coodent and father said before he thought,
that boy is bedeviled to play a cornet, then Mister Fernald he said let
him play it, it wont hurt him, then father begun to tell some more
stories and kept us laffin fit to die, and Mister Fernald he said he hadent
laffed so much for years, and he said, to mother, Missis Shute i gess
you have a prety good natured husband, and she said yes, and father he
said he most never got mad and jest then the bell rung, and Keene went
to the door and said that Mister Swane the poliseman wanted to see
father and father he went to the door and in a minit we herd him
swaring and herd him say it is a dam lie Swane and you know it and
then Swane went away and father came in and said that someone had
ridden horseback over the concreek sidewalk and they tride to lay it on
me. Then it was bedtime and Mister Robinson he prayed some more
and he prayed for those who took the name of the lord in vane, and then
we went to bed.
Oct. 17. Brite and fair. the old ministers has gone. i am glad of it. i
liked Mister Fernald but i hated old Robinson. i gess he wont get
invited here again. this morning at brekfast he prayed again until the
brekfast was most cold and he prayed a good deal about takin the name
of the lord in vane and i cood see that mother looked mad but she
dident say ennything. bimeby he begun to talk to mother about father
having a unfortunate temper, and said his langage was shocking, and
Cele she up and said, i gess my father is as good as you are and Keene
stuck out her tung and mother sent them away from the table, and then
old Robinson he said i am afrade your children are not well brought up,
and mother looked rite at him a minit and then she said, i shood feel

very badly if my children shood xcept hospitality from another person
and crittisise that person to his face, at all events i cannot submit to
have my husband or my children crittisized, and Mister Robinson he
dident say ennymore you bet. after brekfast they went away, and Mister
Fernald he shook hands with us all and he asked mother to let Cele and
Keene come down to shake hands and she did. after they had went
mother she gave us a peace of mince pie apeace and we all hoorayed
for mother. none