ouse he looked up to see if there was enny craip
or a reath on the door. there wasent so he gnew
he hadent dide but he gessed he was prety sick. well
what do you think when he got to his resterant there
stood old Eben all rite wateing for him and he told
Charlie that if he dident want the rest of that chowder
he wood take it. so Charlie he give it to him
and he says he must be jest like a boar constricter.

father has always told me to do evry thing rite
that i attempt to do. he tells me that all the time. i
gess he will find that i can do things rite as well as
the nex one. tonite when we come out of the barn
it had stoped raning and the sun come out i hoap
it will be good wether tomorrow and nex day two.
Pewt is going to make 2 buckets of paist. me and
Beany are to get the flour for it and Pewt makes
it. he knows how better than we do. he and Beany
fernish the brushes to put on the paist. i fernish a
lantirn if it is two dark.

September 10, 186---brite and fair and jest bully
wether. i got up late today and i am glad of it
becaus i have a hard days wirk tonite, father told
me this morning that i must distinkly understand
that there aint going to be no fooling tonite but
jest wirk. i prommised we woodent do nothing but
wirk and put the bills in the best places so as to
pleese evrybody. that is what the circus man told
us not to do enny damige and not to get ennyone
mad but to put the bills where they will attrack the
most atension. and that is why he is to pay us so
mutch money and give us a ticket apeace to the show.

after breckfast i split up enuf wood for today
and luged in 2 pales of water and went over to
Pewts. Beany was there and we opened the role
of pictures and they were old lunkers. gosh the
howling munkeys looked jest like the reverent Josier
Higgins and the cheeter looked kind of slanty eyd
and meen like Decon Aspinwall. the boar constricter
was swalowing a live cow hoal. i bet peeple will
laff. and the tapir honest he looked kind of like
my uncle Gilman.

well we are going to go ferst over the river to
uncle Gilmans and then to old mister Gechel and
then to Pettigrews and then to Clarisser Dorsons
and then to Decon Aspinwalls and then to the reverent
Josier Higgins and so on. Pewt thinks it will
taik 2 hours to do it good so they cant be toar down
if we done it with tacs ennybody whitch dident like
it cood yank it off eesy but if we paist it on with a
little gum arab in it, it will have