Cele and she
thinks if i wood reed the palsams evry day it wood
help but i am afrade i coodent do boath. i wunder
if pewt and Beany can get along without me. i
hoap they will be able to stand it but i woodent be
surprised if they coodent without sum suffering.

ennyway they have got to stand it becaus from this
time we aint going together enny moar. of coarse
i shall speek to them when i meat them and say hi
Beany and hi Pewt but they wont be enny moar
ringing door bells nites and plugging tomatose and
grean apples. that will be hard two because it is
jest the time for them things and the cucumbers is
brite yeller and full of guice and seeds. if a feller
waring a stove pipe hat shood come along the strete
when i was near a tomatoe vine or a cucumber bush
i am afraide i shood have to let ding at him. i
dont beleeve the palsams wood do enny good. there
is sum things that no feller can stand. but i am
going to do the best i can even if i am like a solitary
sandpiper or hork whitch always goes aloan. i am
not going to tell the folks jest what i am going to do.
they will find out later by my acks. sum fellers
talks two mutch. i am not goin to be 1 of that
kind. i am going to keep my mouth shet and do rite
and no feller can do rite if he goes round with Pewt
and Beany and fellers like them. i like them boath
better than i like the best scolars in school and the
fellers whitch dont never miss in there lessons but a
feller has got to do his duty sum times in his life. i
am going to bed and try to sleap but i dont beleeve
i shall sleap a winck.

October 6, 186---brite and fair. i went to school
today for the ferst time. the fellers was glad to see
me. they augt to have been becaus they maid lots
of fun of me. they call me the wild man of Bornio
and munkey face and scrached themselves and pertended
to be awful soar. but i dident cair i was so
glad to get back to school and to see the fellers that
they cood hav called me ennything. ennyway a
feller whitch has been called polelegs and skinny and
daddy long legs and yeller legs dont mind a few
moar nicnaims. i dident get licked today but ame
prety near getting. it seamed like old times to set
at my desk and see old Francis shake the fellers up.
old Francis aint changed a bit.

tonite i was raiking up leeves when Beany come
over. i sed hi Beany and he ses hi Plupy. what
are you doing raiking leeves and i sed yes. he sed
have you got anuther raik and i sed no. then he