nocked the stuffing out of
Aunus from grean Tifernum and Seius and the
other fellers and it wasent enny laffin matter for
them and it wont be enny laffin matter with the
Terible 3. old man Tilton dident laff this morning
when he see that sine on his door. he has laid it
onto old Marco Bazzris Wadley and Jack Flinn
and Gimmy Fitsgerald and Moog Carter all ready,
and Luke Manix two and old Ike Shute has had old
Kize and old Swane the Poliseman up to see about
his sine and old Bill Eldrige has been to see 2 lawyers
Alvy Wood and Jug Stickney. everybody but
them is laffin and wundering who the Terible 3 is.
sum of them may find out sum day.

well this afternoon me and Pewt and Beany went
up river fishing. we dident xpect to get ennything
it was so lait in the fall but Hork and Spitt hadent
been fed for 2 days. we got a lot of shiners and
perch and jest befoar we come back we got the
bigest snaping tirtle i ever see in my life. it was a
ripper and the madest one i ever see. it snaped rite
and left and wood throw his head rite back on his
shell trying to grab us. we had hard wirk to get
a peace of closeline round his hind leg. the only
way we cood do it was to let it bite a stick and
hold on.

we had desided to use a slingshot on old man
Tilton sum day when he was bending over a sawhorse
and his britches were tite but Pewt sed it
wood be a good thing to scair him to deth with the
snaping tirtle ferst. so we are going to tie him to
old man Tiltons doornob sum nite and ring the
doorbell. we coodent do it tonite becaus evrybody
goes down town Saturday nite to the stores and sets
up lait having baths and things. but look out for
yourself mister old man Tilton for the Terible 3
in on your trale.

we xpect a bizzy weak nex weak.

Oct. 19, 186---Sunday. rainy and windy. had to
go to chirch. the only fun i had was to see peeples
umbrellas blow rongside out and to hear them
sware. sum of them was chirch members two. they
did not belong to the Unitarial chirch.

Oct. 20, 186---rany as time. i never gnew it to
rane harder. evryone had on rubber boots and umbrelas.
the wind blew terible and all the leeves is
gone and sum branches of trees is blew down. Buldy
Tasker pushed me into the gutter in front of old
Gim Ellersons lacksmith shop and i went in over
my rubber boots. when i got to school i puled off
my boots and poared out the water and there was
about 4 quats in eech boot. it taiks a long time to
dry rubber boots.