but i gnew he coodent get me and i hollered
again to Beany o Beany aint it lucky the minister is
married becaus all the wimmen is hanging round
him and Beany dident dass to say nothing, but they
all got together and talked and then the minister
come down the bank and called me to come in and
he wood give me my fifty cents if i wood go strait
home but i sed not mutch i dont come where you can
get a holt on me and lam time out of me.

well he sed i will not hurt you but i sed you sed
you wood pay me and you dident and i cant trust
you. he turned red as a beat and sed i am verry
sorry that you acuse me of being untroothful but
here is your money if you will come near enuf so
i can toss it into the boat. so i backed the boat in
holding my oars ready to row out if he tride to
grab the boat or to gump in but he dident do eether
but throwed the fifty cent peace into the boat and i
started for home.

i gess it was about time for i began to feel prety
quear. my head aked and there was black specks
before my eys and my face and hands burned like
fire and smarted and my boans aked.

i gess i shall have to stop here for i hear mother
coming up with my chicken broth and tost and am
most starved to deth. father says i weig 2 pounds
less than nothing and my arms and legs is jest like
pipe stems or spider legs.

Continnude from the last.

August 29 186---when i got home i hiched the
boat and my head went round so i had to set down.
then i got up and went home. mother saw me and
sed what is the matter with your face it is as red
as fire. i sed i gess the muskeeters done it. she
asted me if i wanted enny supper but i sed i dident
ever want to eat again but i wanted a drink of water.
so i drunk sum water and went up stairs. then i
begun to feel bad and caled mother and she come
up jest in time. i was awful sick. father come up
and Aunt Sarah and they held my head and run in
and out of the room with wash boles and towels. o
i was awful sick and mother sed for mersy sakes
what have you been eating and father sed for goddlemity
sake what haven't you been eating?

bimeby i felt a little better only my face and hands
burned and itched. mother sed she dident like the
looks of it and she never gnew a feller to be sick at
his stomack with a red face and hands. so she wet a
towel in cold water and put it on my face and hands
and bimeby i gess i went to sleep.

sumtime in the nite i began to feel sick again and
had awful panes