om the woods and saying it was a burning shaim
and looking at me mad and saying i had aught to be
in jale. and old E. O. Luvrin jawed me but it
dident do no good becaus his lip was so swole that
nobody cood understand what he sed. but i sed i
aint done nothing what are you pichin into me for?

Then a woman sed you are the wirst boy in town
and you are jest like your father was, and i sed i
gess if you gnew what my father sed about you you
woodent say much more and she tirned red and sed
if that boy stays here i wont. it is a shaim to have
sutch a boy at a desent picnic or with desent peeple.

then they all got round me and jawed me and the
minister sed i must go home and i sed all rite if
i have got to go i wil taik my boat, and he sed verry
well take your boat and go. i am verry mutch
disapointed in you. then i sed ennyway i want my
fifty cents and they all sed dont you give him a cent
he has been a newsense. then i sed it may be all
rite to call a feller a newsence after he has rew about
a hundred peeple more than fifty miles and luged
barils stuff up the bank and made reaths and picked
flowers and rescued peeple from drownding whitch
dident know enuf to sit in a boat, but i aint going
till i get my fifty cents then they sed if i dident
go rite off they wood lick me and i woodent get my
fifty cents.

so i got into my boat and rew up river. then i
rew back and kept in the middle of the river and
began to holer things to Beany. i gnew they
coodent drive me off the river so i hollered to Beany
did you see old Misses Peezley have that fit? gosh i
bet she maiks old man Peezley stand round. peraps
that is why he is baldheaded. Beany dident dass to
say nothing.

then i hollered Beany did you hear old decon
Aspinwall sware at me? he wanted to know what
in hel and damation i was triing to do. that is prety
talk for a decon aint it?

i shood think he wood feel ashaimed the nex time
he speeks in prair meeting.

i cood see the decon talking to the minister xcited,
and Misses Peezley was talking xcited two. but
Beany dident dass to say nothing. so i hollered
again to Beany did you see old Rhody Shatuck hold
up her skirts and hiper for the woods? did you
ever see sutch skinny legs? then old man Shatuck
run down the bank and hunted round for a rock but
i gnew he coodent find one becaus there aint enny
rocks there and he tride to break a lim off a tree
to plug at me and he hollered and sed he would brake
my back,