asted
Beany what he was going to do about the dollar and
he says he xpected the poliseman to come for him
enny time. i told him if the poliseman come to tell
him to come over and take the best hen i had.
Beany felt better and sed i was a trew frend. he
says it is a pity things is as they is but he cant help
it. a feller cant help they way he feals sumtimes.
peraps i am lucky that Beany has cut me out for if
i had cut him out i mite be xpecting to go to jale.
if i hadent heard father tell them men to go to hell
i wood be afrade of going tojale or the reform
school. i dont beleeve reform school or jale is enny
wirse then staying in your room when a circus
paraid is going by on the nex strete.

i think i will wright about what has hapened tomorrow
whitch is sunday. i want to finish reading
Grissly Ike the Scalp Lifter. Cele tiptode up to my
room and threw it in. Cele always stands up for a
feller when he is in truble. probly after the hoal
thing has bloan over if it ever does Cele will
tell mother she done rong in giving me the novil
and will ask to be punished that is jest like Cele.

September 14, 186---brite and fair. i am in my
room wrighting. most everybody has went to chirch
xcept mother who never gets time to go and father
who is eether over to Pewts fathers shop or over
to Beanys fathers barn talking. Beany has got his
gob back becaus they found out that Pewt put the
overhals and old hat into the organ. he done it to
play a trick on Beany but he dident meen to lose
him his gob. so it is all rite. i see Beany going to
chirch. i cant go. it is tuf to have to stay in your
room and not be aloud to go to chirch. that is a
prety way to bring up a boy i shood say. it will be
lucky for them if i dont grow up a drunkard and a
robber or a berglar. some day father will be sorry
for what he has did to me.

well it is a long story. last Thursday nite i fell
asleep and father waked me up at 12 oh clock. i
went to Beanys and found him and we went to Pewts
and got the paist and the pictures. i luged one
pale and Beany the other. Pewt luged the paper.
we had to change hands lots of times and set the
pales down. i tell you they was heavy. it was
clowdy but as it was moon time it was prety lite.
we dident see nobody and it seamed kind of dreery.

we got to uncle Gilmans and paisted the picture
of the tapir up rite on the front side of his house.
then we went to Gechels house and paisted up the
giraft. we had a long