ad
to say that my son had nothing to do iwth it and
i am sure he wood not do ennything of the kind.
so old Hobbs he went away and mother came in and
told us. she sed he hadent quite got all of the tomatose
out of his wiskers but she hoped he wood
ketch them. i hoap so two over the left. it may
lern old Hobbs a lesson if he isent two old to learn.
i am afrade he is.

October 14, 186---i have got 2 horks. Potter
Goram give them to me. they is full groan and
verry hansum. one is a hen hork and the other a red
taled hork. gess what i naimed them. one is Hork
and the other Spitt. mother sed those were dredful
naims but i think they are prety good ones. i feed
them on meat and fishes and rats and mice. if you
poak them with a stick they grab it with his claus
and hiss like a snaik. there eys is yellow. i dont
let folks poak them.

tonite i called a meating of he Terible 3. i had
rote the record of what we had did and Pewt had
coppied it. i thougt i had better wright it becaus
i can spel so mutch beter than Pewt.

well Pewt read the record and Beany reported
that there wasent enny money in the tresury. then
i asted if ennybody had ennything to say and Beany
sed that we had better paist old decon Aspinwall
next for he was so meen. i was afrade he wood
lay it onto me becaus i had trubble with him 2 times.
then Pewt sed we cood nale up a sine in front of
his house sassing him, but i had done that onct for
a circus. so we desided to lay for him sum time but
not yet. ennyway we have got him marked.

so after supper we took a few grean apples and
our sticks and went into Pewts back yard behind
the trees and plugged sum apples as hard as we
cood without ameing. we fired them in the direxion
of J. Albert Clarks house becaus he had ordered me
and Beany out of his yard one day jest for nothing.

we wood all plug together jest as hard as we cood
plug and then lissen hard. we cood tell by the sound
when they wood hit on the roofs or not. bimeby
we herd the gingle of glass 2 times. then we begun
to play coram and kep hollering and laffin. then
we herd J. Ward Levitt holler who in hell is firing
rocks through my winders. then he hollered to
father and sed George look here and see what your
dam boy has been up to and we herd father say
what is it Ward and Ward sed he has broak 2 winders
in my shop and you have got to pay for them.
then father sed all rite. if he done it i will pay but
if he hasent done it i wont. so ferst