down town. so i thougt i woodent
be called up on that sum. wel i got called up on
that sum and coodent do it and got licked and Beany
got called up after i had missed and i thougt it wood
be sum fun to see Beany licked. well what do you
think Beany he up and done the example rite. i never
was so sirprised in my life. then old Francis told
me i had augt to be ashaimed of myself. that if i
had did as Elbrige, Elbrige is Beany you know,
done and staid in and studded insted of romeing the
stretes i woodent have missed. i sed yes sir. i
wood like to know how Beany done that xample.
i saw Pewt today and spoke to him. he acted queer.
i wonder if Beany told him.

tonite the fellers plaid again in Beanys yard.
they plaid coram. most always they play coram in
the school yard where there is moar room but tonite
they plaid it in Beanys yard. so i coodent do ennything
but set on the steps after i had done my choars.
they aint much fun in that. i miss Beany a good
deel. it is going to be hard to keep away from him
but it is the rite thing to do. it is 2 days that i
havent got in enny scraip. if i had been going with
Beany and Pewt i wood have got in some scraip
befoar this. it is 2 days sence i have had enny
fun. but it shall get used to it after a while. i studded
hard tonite with Cele and Keene and got all my
xamples. Keene says i dont try. it aint enny of
her bisiness. she only done two of them and Cele
the other 8.

but i notise that the ones whitch does the leest has
the most to say. if Keene says mutch more about
me i wont let her do enny moar of my xamples. so
she had better be cairful what she says. i am going
to bed erly for they aint enny of the fellers to talk to.

October 8, 186---brite and fair. i went to school
today. dident miss in my lessons mutch not enuf to
get licked. Beany had sum good luck and sum
how he did his xample rite. Pewt missed but
xplained the reeson so well that he dident even get
shook. Pewt is grate fer that. he can ast questions
so as to maik old Francis think he knows sumthing
about it when he dont know ennything. i
wish i cood do that. if i dont know the xample i
cant ack as if i did, i am wateing for Beany to get
a good licking to pay him for being meen to me
nites and having all the fellers play in his yard. i
bet i woodent have did that to him.

this afternoon there wasent enny school and i
thougt i wood have sum fun. i went down to Ed
Toles but he had went to drive a man to No