ld on to her skerts and to
aunt Sarahs two and they had to be took out of the
room and when mother and aunt Sarah come back
they sed what have you got there George and father
sed it is your smart son, and mother sed what has
he been doing now, and father sed he has been a
wild man of Bornio at 10 cents a whack and mother
and arnt Sarah sed well of all things in this wirld
and then they begun to laff until the teers roled down
there cheaks and father sed i know it aint no laffing
matter and mother sed i know it aint and then she
lafed so it hirt her side. bimeby father sed what
are we going to do. i draw the line at bringing
up a babboon or a man munky in this family.

So mother and aunt Sarah and father and me
went down to the kitchen and got a tub and filled
it with warm water and they put me in and then
they scrubed me with soft sope and then they took
me out and most of the black was on. the water
was sum black but they sed they coodent see it was
enny blacker than when i took my reglar Saterday
bath. then they filled the tub again and scrubed me
with soft sope and bristol brick. it about skined me
and maid me holler. that took off sum of the black.
then they tride seesand and that hirt so they had to
stop so they greesed me with lard and wiped it off
and father sed i was improving. he sed i looked
like a half nigger and he guessed nex week they cood
get me to look like a quarune and praps weak after
nex like a octerune.

i have got to stay in until i get white again.
mother says i am the wirst looking thing she ever
see in her life. father is talking about reform school
again but i ges i needent wurry. today i was two
soar to be scrubed so i was greased and wiped off.

Tomorrow if i am not two soar they are going
to try bristol brick and soft soap again. i had my
head shaived. father done it with the horse clippers.
tomorrow if i am not two soar they are going
to try bristol brick and soft sope again i asted father
if they cougt that man and he sed no they never
wood. it is tuf to end a weak this way. it is a auful
xperience for a feller whitch has always tride to do
rite.

September 29, 186---today they almost
skined me alive. i feel like a haol pimpel all red
and swole up. after they get throug skining me with
soft sope and bristol brick and seesand they greece
me all over. they are using mutten taller now becaus
lard is too xpensive so mother says, and father says
it suits me for i am the c