is Greelys cat
have kittens in his hat
if ever i ceese to love

well father and Steve and Ann Maria and Aunt
Sarah and Aunt Mary and Charles and mother all
laffed but Cele and Keene and Annie Piper sed i
was very disgusting. ennyway father sed i cood
sing ennything.

well after i had sung Cele and Keene were playing
a peace about Napolion crossing the Alps when
there was a big gingle of glass and a hard apple
came wizzing throug the window and came within
a inch of taiking Steve on the snoot. Keene gave
a screech and evryone gumped up jest as another
hit the side of the house bang. father was out of
the house and down the steps in 2 minits and i after
him. the stewdcats in old mister Heads house were
setting by their table studding in there shert sleaves
and we heard sum one down the strete and father
hipered down strete and i after him. we met Nipper
Brown and his father and father he sed have
you met enny fellers Gus and Nippers father he sed
yes 2 fellers ran down Clifford Strete and me and
father went down Clifford strete and coodent see
enny fellers. so we went back and i picked up a
rock and put it in my pocket. when i ran out after
father i picked up the apple and nobody had seen it.
i gnew if father see that apple with a hole in it he
wood know it was throwed with a stick and he
wood know in a minit who broak old J. Ward
Levitts winders.

so when we come back to the parlor they sed that
2 more rocks had struck the house while we was
gone and i pertended to pick up the rock i had
brougt in under the otterman. father sed if that
rock had hit you Steven it wood have cooked your
goos. and Ann Maria sed it is a mersy it dident
and Aunt May sed this is a serius matter George
and father sed it is more than that Mary it is a
dam outrage and he and Charles went out again and
i folowed them. ferst they went over to Beanys and
asted his father if he had saw ennyone. he sed he
hadent. then father asted where Elbrige was. Elbrige
is Beany you know and he sed he was up to
Pewts painting sumthing in the shop. so father
come back. he was prety mad and sed he wood
give 100 dollers to find out who throwed them
rocks. and he wood like to know what the polisemen
was for enyway. so he and Charles and Steve
talked about how bad the town was run and what a
tuf set of rowdies there was now a days and how
mutch better it was in the old days. then father he
sed a few days ago sum one put a notise up on
cousin Isaks