tins blacking befoar i cood get them to shine.
it was a awful long day in the yard. Beany brougt
his black and tan terrier over and we got Frank
Haines dog over and had a fite but jest as they
were going good mother come out and poared a
pale of water on them and they run off prety quuick.
neether licked. that is always the way. sumbody
always stops the good fites.

it was Saterday nite and after i had luged in
about a milion pales of water and filled all the tubs
for the folks to taik there baths in father he sed
to mother, Joey, he calls her Joey, becaus her name
is Joanna. sumtimes when father wants to plage
her he calls her Johanna with a h and says she is
irish. she dont like that becaus she is inglish.
mother came to America when she was 3 years of
aig and so she doesent remember verry much about
ingland. father says mother dont understand gokes
becaus she is inglish and mother says she is glad
of it becaus a good menny of fathers gokes hadent
augt to be understood by ennybody. when she says
that father always laffs and says she is a goker
herself sumtimes.

well i forgot what i was a going to say becaus
when i wright about my father and mother i dont
think about ennything else they are so bully. My
father was the best fiter in Exeter or ennywhere
elce. Ed Thursten told me that once he and father
went down to newmarket and a feller in the hotel
tride to lick father and father hit him a old he one
in the snout and gnocked him up 2 flites of stairs
and round 3 corners befoar he stoped. i bet they
aint many fellers whitch cood do that. ennyway
Ed was there and seen him do it and he says he
can show me the hotel and the stairs and the corners
he went round and the big dent in the wall where
he stoped. so i gess it must be so. i bet Beanys
father coodent do it. i bet Pewts coodent eether.

evrybody likes father and calls him George and
he gokes with them and gets them to say funny
things and then he laffs and evrybody laffs. so he
dont never have to fite now. i am glad of it for i
shoodent like to se father fite even if he can lick
evrybody.

gosh it is funny i forgot what i was going to say.
you see i think father and mother is about the best
peeple in the wirld. i dont know whitch is best.
father says mother is wirth 500 of him and he augt
to know becaus he has gnew her longer than i have.

well father sed well Joey, he calls her Joey, how
has the boy behaived himself today and mother sed
he has do