ed
and snifed and went off stifleged like old Missis
Peezly.

then father sed to Mary Ann and Unice Wilkins
and Feeby Derborn. young ladies there probly aint
enny peeple that do as mutch for the moral uplif
of the chirch as those devoted young wimmen whitch
do so mutch to help the minister in his menny duties
in the chirch and parrish and when the history of
the chirch is rote you young ladies will occupy a
very high place on the role of onner. they always
is and always will be peeple whitch is consoomed
with gelousy and probly sum one has sed things and
my son has heard them. but i am sure young ladies
whitch is so kind harted as you have shew yourselfs
to be will not be two sevear on a boy whitch at the
time was sufering from poizen ivory and over eating
and as for his part he wood punish him sevearly
for saying what he did.

so they sed if he wood do that it wood be all rite
and they sed it was a pleasure to talk with a man
who was so willing to do rite and to maik others
do rite and father sed it was a pleasure to meat and
talk to ladies of their standing in chirch and in
society and he shook hands with them and they sed
good nite to father and to mother and mother looked
at them jest as if they wasent there, and they all
tirned red and snifed and went off mad as time and
jest as stifleged as the others.

well after they had went father looked at mother
kind of funny and scrached his hed and sed well
Joey, he calls mother Joey, you have got about as
mutch tack as a fire alarm on resurexion day and
mother sed George Shute do you realy mean to say
that you are going to whip him for lying to you after
what you have sed to them wimmen? and father
laffed and sed he had to do sumthing to teech me a
lesson and that one moar nite like this wood send
him to a mad house. and mother told him he lide to
them wimmen wirse than i had lide to him and he
sed it wasent lies it was dipplomercy and if she had
enny tack he wood have had them gnitting sox and
mittens for him, and mother snifed two.

so then he took me up stairs and licked me. not
verry hard but moar than i desirved. but the wirst
was that i cant go out of the yard for 3 days and
nex weak is the last weak of vacation. i think it is
prety meen to treat a boy so whitch has lade between
life and deth for 3 days. i always get the
wirst of it when i try to be good.

i never will try to be good again if i live a million
years.

September 4, 186- brit