s until we got to the feeld oposite
old man Tiltons house.

it was a awful lug and i bet we put it down to rest
50 times but bimeby we got it there. then we tride
to shaik the old snaper out of the bag and it seamed
as if we never cood get him out. bimeby we got
him out and lit sum maches to see his mouth was
tide up tite and it was and the stick was still there
he coodent spitt it out. gosh but he was mad and
tride to snap. there was a lite in old man Tiltons
house and we cood see him setting by a table with
a red cloth and a lamp with a red wick reading.
sumwhere in the back of the house was another lite
and we could hear Peeliky Tiltons uncles practising
band tunes on their horns. they was making a feerful
noise so nobody heard us when we 3 tide the
snapper to the dorgnob. it was all we cood do he
claued so. then when we had him hanging head
downwerds we rung the bell as hard as we cood and
hipered acrost the strete and hid in the bushes behine
the fense.

we cood see old man Tilton put down his paper
and holler sumthing. i gess he told Peeliky Tiltons
uncles to stop their noise. ennyway it stoped and
he lit a little tin lamp and come to the door and
opened it. we cood hear the old tirtle scraching at
the door and banging his head agenst it as he tried
to snap and the old man heard it and when he
opened the door he looked round throug his old
specks and dident see ennything and then he steped
out on the porch and stuck his hed round the door
and i gess it was lucky he dident take the big lamp
for when he see that old snaper swinging this way
and that way clauing and snaping he let out a yell
you cood heard for 3 miles and droped the lamp and
almost tirned a back sumerset he tride so hard to
get back into the house and slamed the door. then
we heard him hollering for Peeliky Tiltons uncles
and we cood see them come piling into the room and
evryone talked. then they come out of the side
door. Peeliky Tiltons uncle had a lantirn and a ax
and his uncle George had a shot gun and a tin lamp
and his uncle Warren had a pichfork and a torchlite
percession torch and old man Tilton was looking
out of the window. Ed went first with the lantern
and when he saw what it was he sed it is a snaping
tirtle as big as a wash boiler. sum darn fool has
tide it to the gnob. so George sed sumone cut the
roap and we will get him and Warrin he sed look
out them snapers will taik a mans hine leg off at
1 snap and Ed sed hell i a