is the reeson
i cant get my lessons. no feller can studdy when a
band is playing king John quickstep and red stocking
quickstep and romanse from Leeclare and departed
days and things like them rite across the strete. so
i miss in my lessons and get licked most every day.
sum day i am going to play in a band. i shall play
a e flat cornet like old Robinson and Bruce Briggim
and Rashe Belnap. they played a new peace tonite.
i shoodent think men whitch cood play in a band
wood ever do ennything else. i never wood.

September 20, 186---rany as time. i hoap it
wont rane next weak when they are having the fare.
tonite it raned so hard that the band dident pracktise
so i had time to studdy. i coodent do ennything
this afternoon but set in Ed Toles barn and
see the horses rubed down.

September 21, 186---brite and fair today. i went
to chirch today. After chirch me and father went
up to the fair grounds. they have got a lot of sheds
bilt and most of the fence is up and the ralings
round the track. i bet it will be a good fair.

Peekily Tiltons father plays in the band and 3
uncles. his father plays a b flat tenner horn and his
uncle Ed plays a e flat base horn and his uncle
George plays an e flat alto horn and his uncle Warrin
plays a b flat cornet. Peeliky says he is going to
play some day. he doesnt know what he will play
but he wil play sumthing. i asted father why he
dident play in the band and he sed they was dam
fools enuf in the wirld without he being one. i was
going to ast him to by me a cornet but i desided
i woodent jest yet. i gnew jest what he wood say
if i asted him.

father says he dont like band playing but i notise
he stays to home the nites the band plays and sets
on the steps an lisens and beets time with his foot
and sumtimes puts in as good base as Ed Tilton,
Peeliky Tiltons uncle can with his base horn and
when sumbuddy in the band plays out of tune he
gumps up and waulks up and down the piaza and
says why dont they hit that feller with a ax. so
i know he likes band playing as wel as i do. i wish
he played in the band fer then i wood go into the
bandroom and hear them. me and Beany tride
to go in one nite and we was jest going up stairs
when sumbuddy throwed a hoal pale of water on us
and we skined out prety lifely. i woodent care if
they only wood let us in after they had throwed
the water but they hollered get out of here you little
devils or we will drownd you. i bet them band
fellers c