eanys father sed Beany sed he dident
know about the spider munkey bill and i sed Beany
was in the house then and i done it.

then they all sed i was the ring leeder and had led
Pewt and Beany into temptasion and old Decon Aspinwall
sed it was mity queer that we dident put up
ennything on fathers house and the boy was the
father of the man and that he wood see that i was
sent to the reform school and that father paid
heavy damages.

that was the time father got mad and told him
to go to hell and old Decon went off to see his
lawyer. then father told the others that he wood
do all he cood to make it rite and he took me round
to all of them to their houses and made me beg their
pardon. peeple were scraping the pictures off and
washing them with hot water and evrybody was
laffing.

Uncle Gilman and Mister Gechel and Horris Cobb
all laffed and sed it was a good goke but the others
were all feerful mad with me and father and not
very mad with Pewt and Beany. that is all rite but
the idea of me leading Pewt and Beany into temtasion
makes me sick.

well Pewt got a licking and Beany got a licking
and i got a licking and we have all got to stay in
the house until school begins. but Beany had to go
to chirch to keep his gob.

it is prety tuf to stay in a fellers room and to hear
a circus band playing and not go jest becaus we
tride to do the best we cood. ennyway i am glad i
aint going to the reform school. father jest come
in with a paper. he sed he had been arested and
had to get bale. he sed old Decon Aspinwall had
sewed him for 10 thousand dollars for defaiming
his caracter. father sed old Decon had to go to
Portsmouth for a lawyer, and that Amos Tuck and
General Marstin and Judg Stickney and Alvy Wood
all come up and sed they wood see him throug without
paying a dam cent. father feals prety good tonite.
Aunt Sarah says he always does when there
is a chane for a fite.

this is the ferst time in my life i ever hoaped
school wood begin. ennything is beter than staying
in your room.

September 15, 186---school begun today and
i went. i dident supose i ever wood ruther go to
school than stay in my room espeshully a school
whitch is taugt by old Francis. but they is always
sumthing lively taiking place in old Francis school.
sumtimes Micky Guold is setting down on tacts or
the points of pens whitch has been stuck in his seet
so they wont fall over like a bent pin whitch aint
mutch good enyway most of th