to be scrope off
with a gnife. so Pewt says and i gess he knows,
we carried up 2 paper bags of flour and Pewt made
2 buckits of paist. we paisted a picture of Flora
Temple the fastest trotting horse in the wirld on a
mahoginy buro that Pewts father is polishing for
Doctor Goram Potters grandfather and i bet it will
taik a weak to get it off. so i gess Pewts paist is
good paist. we are going to meat at Beanys at
haff past 12 oh clock. father is going to wake me
at 12 oh clock. i hoap he wont forget to wake up.
ennyway it wont make enny difference for i shant
go to sleep. i bet we will have a good time.

Beany says it is all up with him if he dont get
that dollar. he says he will be the ferst of his
family to go to jale. that is what a feller gets for
being in debt. Beany had augt to have wated. but
i supose when a feller gets going with a girl he
dont think. Beany is not bad but thinkless. i hoap
it will be a lessen to him. he is feerfully wurrid
but he needent be for if the wirst comes to wirst i
shall sell one of my hens. i havent told him this
becaus if he gnew it perhaps he wood spend the
dollar for sumthing else for her. but while i have
a hen to my naim Beany shall not go to jale. i wood
not go to bed at all tonite if father woodent know it
but if my lite aint out by 10 oh clock he hollers for
me to go to bed lively. so i am going to read
Grissly Ike the Scalp Lifter until 10 oh clock and
then go to bed and lissen for the clock to strike 12.

September 13, 186---this is saterday. i almost
wish i was ded. i havent been out of my room
sence Thirsday xcept to split wood and lug water
and feed the sheep and horse and hens. father says
one moar sumer like this one will make a gibbering
manioc of him. he says there must be sumthing
rong with me. he dont know wether he had augt
to lick it out of me or send me to the reform school
or to a place where they keep idjuts. that is the
way he talks to me but when old Decon Aspinwall
and the reerent Josier Higgins and Clarisser Dorsens
husband and old man Pettigrew sed i had augt
to be sent to the reform school he told them to go
strait to hell and try it if they thougt they cood.
Beanys father has kep Beany in his room and Pewts
father has kep Pewt in. the only time i can speak
to Beany is after father has went to Boston and
Beanys father has went down town we holler across
from our chamber winders. we havent seen Pewt
for his chamber is on the back of his house. i