e time and hollering
bludy merder and geting snached baldheaded for it
by old Francis, or Beany or Bug Chadwick is being
ferriled with a hard wood ruler with 2 hairs in the
pam of there hand to splitt the old ruler into fraggments
whitch i have never seen did yet in this life
or licked sumwhere else whare nuthing will do enny
good xcept a peace of paistboard or the Exeter
Newsleter in the set of their britches, or Pop Clark
is maid to eat a apple before the hoal school as fast
as he can with rot and wirm holes and wirms and
the stem and seeds and the coar or Skinny Bruce
is being snaiked over 2 seets and put in the woodbox
with the cuvver down because Gim Erly whitch sits
behine Skinny put a pin in the toe of his shue and
reeched over and kicked Tady Finton whitch sits in
front of Skinny and old Francis wont believe
Skinny but licks him onct for doing it and twict
for liing about it whitch he says is twict as wirse
as doing it, or Fatty Gilman is down on all foars and
howling while old Francis lams him with the haff of
the broom stick he stirs the fire with while Fatty
is triing hard to crawl throug a chair whitch he cant
do enny moar than the cammel cood crawl throug
the ey of the needle in the bible.

All of them things is taiking place in old Francis
school every day whitch makes it a very intersting
place when you are not the feller whitch is doing
them things but is setting down and waching them
out of the coner of your ey and pertending to studdy
hard whitch nobudy can do when sumbuddy is howling
terruble and banging agenst seets and you never
know when your tern wil come nex.

but it is lots beter than staying in your room
and not seing the fellers and coppying there xamples
and getting so far behine in your studdies that you
are shoar to get licked evry day for a week or 2.
there is sum fun in geting licked onct in a while if
you have a chance to escaip and it is a grate deel
moar fun if sumbuddy else gets licked for sumthing
you have did. sumtimes a feller will tel on sumbuddy
else and then evry feler whitch can lick him
licks him the ferst time they gets the chance. but
most of the fellers will take another fellers lickings
without a yip. Old Francis lickings is wirse than 2
or 3 of another fellers lickings but aint so bad as 30
or 40 lickings whitch a feller is shoar to get if he
tells on anuther feller to say nuthing about the girls
running their tungs out at you and calling you tattle
tail and