cood becaus he dident want to let the wind go out.
Chipper sed the reeson he pumped so hard was
becaus he gnew that all the wind wood go into the
squeel keys and sound awful. Beany feals prety
bad over it becaus he needed the money. he has
bougt sumthing at old Bill Morrils gewelry store.
I knew what it is two and who it is for but Beany
dont know i know. Beany will feal prety cheap if
he has to give it back to old Bill. praps she wont
give it back to Beany. then Beany will be in a
scraip. ennyway if she wont give it back Beany
wont never forgive her. i hoap she wont. it will
be tuf on Beany.

September 7, 186---Beany is fealing prety bad.
he asted me if i cood lend him a dollar. honest i
coodent becaus i aint got it. he says he has got to
get a dollar ennyway. i lent him 40 cents so he
aint got to get but 60 cents moar. he tride to get
a gob today poasting bills but Cris Staples got it.
then Beany he went up to Chipper Berleys to get
his pay and Chipper told him he was lucky not to
get arested for distirbing a religus meating. so
Beany dont know what to do. he aint got ennything
to sell and i aint eether. he tride to borrow
it of Pewt but Pewt sed he dident have it.

September 8, 186---they is a circus coming to
town next Friday. it was going to be in Portsmouth
but there was another circus got the the
circus grounds ferst and so they are coming to
Exeter. me and Pewt and Beany are going to get
a gob poasting bills. the bill poaster was in town
today with a red and blue and gold cart with 2
calico horses and put up the big bills. he only had
2 big ones and dident have enny others and cant get
them until Wensday nite and he wants me and Pewt
and Beany to put them up in the nite so that when
the peeple get up in the morning they can see them
the ferst thing. the way he hapened to get us is
becaus Beanys father and Pewts father is painters
and paper hangers and so they went to them and
they wodent stay up all nite to do it and then he
asted if they was enny boys to do it for a dollar a
peace and a ticket and so we got the gob. we cant
tell ennyone jest what we have got to do but it is
bully. he told us that we was to put the pictuers
up in the rite places to make a show and atract the
attension of the peeple. where they cood see them
the best. so we are going to do it. he says the
secrit of poasting bills is to get them in the rite
places. he give us a list of the pictures. these are
them. the hippotymus th