o run and run rite into Boss arms and Boss
grabed father by one neck and Gim by the other
and he waulked them down to fathers fathers
house and sent for old Dan Melcher and he came
hipering up from his house with his coat tales floating
in the breaz. well after they had talked about
an hour fathers father and old Dan Melcher paid
10 dollers to old Boss Langly and agreed to tan the
hide off of father and Gim if old Boss woodent
persecute and woodent tell the other store keepers
who pluged the gravil. and fathers father tanned
the hide off of father and Gims father tanned the
hide off of Gim and Bill got off becaus old Boss
dident have but 2 hands to grab with an had put his
falce teeth in a glass of water behine the stove and
he coodent hold Bill without teeth or he wood have
got Bill two, and father and Gim wasent tattletales.

father had sed he thought old Boss got prety good
interest for nothing. he got 10 dollers and dident
have to pay enny reward and had the fun of ketching
them and the way they put it on showed that
they liked to do it. so evrybody was satisfide xcept
father and Gim. then Aunt Mary she sed well i
guess you desirved it George and father laffed and
sed i gess i desirved a good deal moar than i ever
got Aunt Mary. father had augt to have licked
me 10 times as often as he did. and then Hellen
Smith sed evrybody tells me George that you was
the meanest boy in the town and father sed no
Hellen i dont think i was meen. i was bad enuf
god knows but i always had lots of frends and kep
them and a meen feller never has frends. and
Hellen she sed well if you wasent a meen boy i
shood like to know what a meen boy was and father
he sed a meen boy or man or girl or woman is one
whitch does meen things to another or says meen
things about them. i dont know whitch is the wirst
but i gess the one whitch says meen things about
peeple. so Hellen she set up and nobody sed ennything
for 2 minits. then Keene got up and went
to the piano and set down and sung

i'm the girl that's gay and happy
where so ear i chanct to be
and there's sumthing i will tell you
if you will but list to me

i tell you Keene is rite on hand when there is ennything
going on. bimeby they went home and i went
upstairs. i wonder what Pewt and Beany will say
when they find out that they broak fathers winders
insted of old J. Alberts. it seams funny to have
to pay Pewts father for putting in new panes of
glass in plaice of the