eliky Tiltons uncles play you wood
have thougt they wood bust their cheeks but they
dident. Fatty Walker broak 2 heads on his base
drum the ferst day and Len Heirvey broak one in
the snair drum. I gnew they wood beat the Newmarket
band. tonite father and mother and Cele
and Keene and Georgie have went to the haughticulture
show in the town hall. they have all sorts
of frutes and beens and pees and beets and flowers
and gars of frute and perserves and bread and cake
and pyes to see whitch has maid the best and gnitting
and sowing things and drawings and paintings
and bea hives and stufed birds and a stufed wilcat
showing her teeth. it is ded so it cant hirt ennybuddy
and composisons of school girls and handwriting
and lots of things. i wanted to go but
father sed i codent go to evrything. i gess i will
go to bed. i have got a verry bizy day tomorow.
Beany is going to try and get a gob tomorow.

September 25, 186---brite and fair again. i am
prety tired again tonite and am staying to home.
father and arnt Sahar and Keene and Cele and
Georgie have went to the haughticulchure show this
time and me and mother are staying to home.
mother is rocking the baby and i am in my room
wrighting. today there was a percession this morning
and i was in it but only a litle while. i held
one end of the base drum but evry time Fatty Walker
wood hit it a good belt he wood send me flying
round sideways and at the end of the ferst peace i
felt jest as if old Francis had shook my livver out.
so i give it up. so they got Curley Conner a big
feller. Fatty cood bang the drum as hard as he
cood lam it but he coodent nock Curley round.

today the Exeter band beat the Newmarket band
again. it scart 4 horses and made them run awa
and smashed 3 wagons and throwed out 14 people
and the Newmarket band only scart one horse and
dident throw out enny peeple. i tell you Exeter
can beat Newmarket evry time.

Me and Pewt and Beany all got a chance to take a
gob. the man that hollers for Julia the snaik
charmer offerd us 1 doller apeace if we wood stand
up on the platform and let a boar constricter coil
around us and then Julia the snaik charmer wood
come out and charm the snaiks and save our lifes.
you bet we dident take that gob.

Beany got a gob hollering for a peap show of war
pictures but his father come riding up and snaiked
him out. i give 5 cents of my 40 cents that Beany
pade me to get a shock in a lectric machine and
when i got hold