stiking their nose up in the air when they
goes by you whitch maiks a feller feal prety cheep
whitch is sumtimes wirse than a licking.

So on the hoal i had ruther go to school than stay
in my room whitch dont make enny diference becaus
i have got to go ennyway wether i want to or not.

tonite i had to studdy Colburn arithmatic. it is
the wirst book i ever studded. i bet there aint a boy
in this wirld whitch doesnt want to paist time out of
old Colburn. i had ruther be a merderer if nomuddy
gnew it than be a feler whitch rote a arithmatic.
Ennyway old Colburn had a key whitch tells
jest how to do the xamples and has them all figgered
out. teechers is aloud to have the key but the
scholers cant have it. Enny time old Francis dont
know how to do a xample he looks in his key and
lerns how and then a feller whitch dont have a key
is snached baldheaded becaus he dont know how to
do it. i dont think that is fair. i had 10 xamples
to do and i have got them all did. Cele done 4 and
Keene 3 and father 3. so i am all rite tomorrow.
father give me 2 bats in the ear befoar i undestood
one xample. Keene gets mad but she dont dass to bat
me. Cele is the best.

September 16, 186---brite and fair. i havent let
my boat for a long time. Pewts' father has got the
best boats now. it was prety quite in school today
only 9 fellers got licked. five of them hollered to
make old Francis stop. Scotty Briggim never hollers
and Stubby Gooch and Tady Tilton and Jack
Mevlin dont ever holler. Nigger Bell never got
but one licking and he hollered louder than enny
feller i ever herd Old Francis dont lick him becaus
he hollers so loud.

September 17, 186---brite and fair. i havent had
a cent for moar than a weak. it is tuf to be so
poar. i have got to rase sum chink sumhow. Beany
aint paid me my 40 cents yet.

September 18, 186---i got licked today in school.
jest for nothing. sum one put sum gum in Medo
Thirstems seet and he coodent get up to resite and
old Francis yanked him up and found the gum and
licked me becaus i set jest behine his seet. he sed
he had been keeping his ey on me for a long time.
it cant be very long becaus school has only been 3
days. today was wensday and there wasent enny
school in the afternoon. me and Putter went up
river fishing and caught 8 pickeril. prety good
for us.

September 19, 186---brite and fair. nex weak
is the county fair and cattle show. i am going. the
band is pracktising evry nite and that