went to the
trane. so i went to bed.

the nex morning mother come up and waked me
and told me to dress and come down stairs jest as
quick as i cood. she looked xcited. i asted her if
ennybody was sick and she sed wirse than that. i
cood hear peeple talking loud down stairs and i run
down as quick as i cood get my close on and without
washing my face or comeing my hair. when i got
down there in the setting room i saw Billy and Mrs.
Billy Hanson and old Pettigrew and Beanys father
and Pewts father and the reverent Josier Higgins
and old man Wiggins the trusty of the berrying
ground and Decon Aspinwall and Pewt and Beany
and father and mother and Aunt Sarah. and they
were all piching in xcept father and mother and
Aunt Sarah who dident say ennything. Mrs. Billy
Hanson sed she had never been so insulted in her
life. she sed she had lived a good cristian life and to
have sech a insult paisted on her house was more
than flesh and blud cood stand and she boohood
like a big baby. and Decon Aspinwall sed he had
stood all he was going to and this time the coarts
wood take it up and settle it onct for all if peeple
was to be insulted and defaimed and there rites
trampled on and the reverent Josier sed he thougt
the sacrid eddifise of whitch he was a unwerthy
paster had augt to be safe from infaimus attacks
and that he shood ast the coarts to rite him in the
publick ey.

and old man Wiggins he sed that the ded wood
tirn in there graives if they see what was on the
berrying ground gait. and Beanys father sed he
wasent going to be called a spider munkey for nothing
and Pewts father sed he was going to find out
who poasted up that Jo Jo bill befoar he left, if
it took the rest of his lifetime. then they all talked
together and made a feerful noise. bimeby father
sed now you have all had your chance, less find out
sumthing about it. so he told them what he gnew
about the circus man asking us to poast the bills
and Pewts father and Beanys father sed that was so.
then father asted me why i done it and i told him
we were told to poast the bills in aproprate places
to atrack attension and we done it. i sed we was
going to put the stork up on Missis Dorsens house
but the doctor was there and we coodent and so we
put it on Misses Hansons. and then Missis Hanson
saled into me like time again then Pewts father sed
Pewt sed he dident know ennything about puting the
Jo Jo bill on his house and i sed he was in the house
then and B