ad the
roach and pickeril for supper and they was fine.
after supper father went down town for sumthing
and we was setting round the table. Cele had read
the 95nd palsam and was reading Dare Devvil Dave
the Ded Shot and i was wateing for father who
sed he wood bring me a new novil from Fogg and
Fellers store. Keene was reading the Fireside Companion,
mother lets her read that insted of the New
York Legger. Georgie was putting a picture puzel
together and Annie and Franky and the baby had
been put to bed when i heard father comin up the
steps. as soon as he opened the door i sed have
you got my novil and he sed the thing you will get
is a thundering good licking insted of a novil and i
see i a minit that he was mad. so i sed what have
i done and he sed what in thunder did you wright
that devilish leter to that infernal idiut Aspinwall
for? and i sed i done it to beg his pardon and
mother she sed i done rite. then father he sed that
is a prety way to beg a mans pardon by telling him
i sed he was a dam hippokrit. then i sed i dident
say you sed he was a dam hippokrit i only sed you
sed when a man tries to be a decon and a plug ugly
one at the same time it was the dam hippockerasy
of the thing that made you mad. i dident say you
sed he was a dam hippokrit.

father he sed for goddlemitys sakes what is the
difference? what rite had you to tell him that ennyway
and i sed well you did say it dident you? and
he sed of coarse i sed it and it is true but if you
dont know enny more than to tattle evrything i say
at home i will give you a good sound thrashing rite
now and i thougt i was going to get it when mother
sed wait George to father and then she sed to me
what did you wright to decon Aspinwall and i cood
remember all of it and i told her jest what i had
rote and she leened back in her chair and begun to
laff and laffed and laffed until i thought she wood
fall out of her chair and Aunt Sarah she laffed almost
as hard as mother and father he begun to laff
and then we all laffed. i laffed becaus i see father
laffin and i sed to my self it is all rite he wont lick
me now. so i laffed. after we had stoped laffing
mother sed how did you find out about the letter
George and father he sed i went into Fogg and
Fellers store to get your novil and while i was talking
to Jack Fogg up come decon Aspinwall as red
as a beat and sed what do you mean George Shute
by calling me a dam hippokrit? and i sed i havent
called you a dam