resterants and pop corn places and evrything
else. i wood like to go up tonite but father
says i cant go up until the ferst day of the fair.

Tommy says there is going to be a snaik charmer
and a bull whitch gives milk and a girl whitch has
got 2 heads and 4 legs and 4 arms and a sheep with
6 legs. mother says i cant go in to see the girl with
4 legs becaus its impropper to look at a girls legs.
i asted father and he sed it is twict as impropper
to look at a 4 leged girls legs as a 2 leged one so i
cant go in to see that.

Tommy sed they was going to be a troting race
for bulls. Charley Treadwill has got a big white
and black bull named Nickerbocker whitch he drives
in a wagon with a bit in his mouth and he is going
to have a race with a bull from Portsmouth.
i bet on Charleys bull. i wish it was a bull fite. i
wood bet on Charleys bull.

old Wakeup Robinson is going to trot his horse
Prince John. they is going to have 2 bands the
Exeter band and the Newmarket band. i bet the
Exeter band is the best. i cant hardly wate for tomorrow.

i dident miss in school today and tonite we set out
on the steps to hear the band. old wisler Weeks is
going to play a fife in the band and old Potsy Dirgin
is going to play a fife two.

September 24, 186---brite and fair and county
fair two. that is a goke and a good one two but
nobuddy will ever see it but me. gosh i am tired
tonite i never had so much fun in my life. we had
the best percession i ever see. first come the marchals
George Perkins and John Gardner and Beanys
father and old Francis and John Gibson all on white
horses xcept George Perkins and John Gardner and
old Francis whitch was on red horses and Jon Gibson
whitch was on a spoted horse and they all looked
fine. then come the Exeter band and then a lot of
ox teems full of wimen in white with their hides
all brushed up with curry combs and their horns all
cuvered with ribbons and evergreens in their slats.
i tell you when old Giddings and old Wiliam Conner
and old Nat Gilman jabbed them with the ox godes
they walked along prety lifely. then come the Newmarket
band and then the fire ingine and a lot of
men with cains and stove pipe hats and then a steam
wagon and then Charles Tredwill driving his bull
and old wakeup Robinson with his troter and a sope
pedler with a humpback horse. it was the best percession
i ever see. the Exeter band played 4 times
as loud as the Newmarket band. i wish you cood
have heard Pe