re sence than you did when you
rote the leter to old Aspinwall. and i sed yes sir
I am glad i had so i thougt i was all rite when the
door bell rang kind of mad. i can always tell how
a person feals when he rings our doorbell and when
he neerly pulls it out i know he is mad. i felt as
if sumthing was going to hapen jest then.

well Cele went to the door and i heard a woman
asing if father was in and i reconised Misses Peezlys
voice and i gnew she was mad and i wondered what
she was mad for. so father he went in and i cood
her her yapping away at him and cood hear father
talking but coodent hear what they was saying.
mother sed i hope you told your father the truth and
i sed yes mam. bimeby father come in and called
mother and she went in and i cood hear her talking.
jest then the door bell rang and Cele let in old Rody
Shatuck and a minit afterwerds in come Angelina
Annis and Unice and Mary Ann Wilkins and Feeby
Derborn all of them jest mad enuf to fite. i cood tell
they was mad by the way they asted for father. i
tell you i got fealing prety sick but i coodent see
what they was mad about. when they went into
the parlor you wood have thougt it was a chirch
meating when they was voating for the carpet in the
vestry. evry woman talked to onct jest as loud as
they cood. i never head such a noise in my life
before. bimeby father come in and told me to come
in and told me not to say a word unless to answer
questions that he asked. i hated awful to go in but
i had to. when i got in they was all there with there
faces as red as beats and mad enuf to bit spikes.
Rody Shatuck called me a misable brat and old
Missis Peezly called me a low minded retch and
made a mosshun as if she was going to paist me one
with her old umbrela, but father told me to set down
in a chair by mother then Angelina sed to mother
that she augt to be ashaimed of herself for incurageing
me in my criminallity. that is what she sed
but i dident know what she ment. but father who
had not yipped a single yip sence i went in sed loud
now look hear Misses Shatuck i want you to understand
that you must keep Missis Shute out of this
discussion. you can say what you like to me or
about me and when you are all through i may have
sumthing to say but if ennyone of you say a word
disrespectful to her why then we will stop this thing
to onct. Now if you understan that go ahead. well
i gess they understood it for of all the talk you ever
heard, you wood have