e and fair. it mite jest
as well rane as not. i cant go out of the yard
today and none of the fellers have been up. i saw
Beany ride by on Jo Palmers back. i hollered at him
but he dident look. then Pewt went down throug the
high school yard with 2 oars over his shoulder. me
and Pewt aint so frendly now becaus old man Purinton
has bougt 2 boats, new ones and is leting them
to peeple for less than i get for mine. he has
painted them all white with a red rim and a picture
on the stirn and they dont enny peeple want my
boat. i wasent mad with Pewt but he feals so big
over his old boats that it maiks me sick.

ennyway he mite have come over to see me when
i was sick and laid between life and deth 3 days.
sum other peeple mite have come. Lizzie Tole was
one of them. if it had been Beany she wood have
went to see him.

i read in a book onct how a feller had a girl
whitch took up with another feller whitch had a
fine horse and buggy and a silver mounted harnis.
so this feller told her he had lost all faith in wimmens
consistency and had put them out of his life for
ever. so the girl laffed and told him all rite she
dident cair. so he went away with his hart curroded
with bitterniss and went to wirk in a hotel. He
wirked so hard that in 3 years he oaned the hotel
and had money in the bank. then the girl rote him
that she had always luved him and never had luved
the other feller but he rote her that the dye was
cast, he shood never marry. and he never did, so
his children never gnew a mothers cair.

so i shall never marry like that feller who dident
and all on account of Beany. sumhow i cant get
mad with Beany. i had augt to menny times and
keep mad two but i cant do it.

September 5, 186---i got up erly this morning
befoar father went to Boston and took cair of Nellie
and swept out the stable and luged in the water and
split a lot of wood and blacked fathers boots and
set up and had breckfast with him. i was hoaping
he wood let me go out of the yard. but he dident
say nothing about that but did say i had got to get
up evry morning befoar he goes away and do my
chores i done them so well this morning. i thougt
that was a prety mean thing for him to do. i wished
i hadent got up. well tonite father he caime home
mad and sed i was the bigest fool he ever see. he
sed i had blacked his boots with stove polish and
evrybody laffed at him. so i wont have to get up.
i had to black his boots over 2 times with Day and
Mar