m whitch Pewt broak. if Pewt
can do this evry nite he can keep the old man bizzy
all the time and make a pile of money.

October 24, 186---brite and fair and frost last
nite. father waked me up hollering up the stairs.
he sed come down here quick so i piled out of bed
and put on my close as lifely as i cood and went
down 3 steps at a time. when i got there father
told me to come out in front of the house and to
look and i done it and there on old J. Alberts side
of the house was a sine whitch sed

J. Albert Clark we have broak your win-
ders. this is jest a beginning, moar anon.
bewair. bewair the Terible 3.

i looked as sirprised as i cood and sed gosh father
then it was the Terible 3 and they was trying to get
even with J. Albert insted of you. i wunder what
he has did to them. but father sed i dont cair what
he has did to them it cant go on this way verry
long befoar sumone will be in jale. when he sed
that i felt as if i dident have enny stomack. then he
hollered for J. Albert and old J. Albert come down
and when he saw the sine and father had told him
about the broaken winder he sed he shood go down
town to the polise stasion and make a complaint and
see if innosent peeple aint going to have enny pertection
under the law.

then father sed have you did ennything rong to
ennyone Albert whitch mite want to get even with
you and old J. Albert he sed he hadent done rong
to a living sole as far as he gnew and he sed i
gess George they must have got in the rong side
of the house and they ment it for you insted of me
and father sed that may be so Albert but it is almity
quear that they shood call me J. Albert Clark and
hang the sine on your side of the house and J.
Albert dident know what to say to this and so he
sed i gess that is quear but peeple do quear things
sumtimes. then father sed have you heard how
they hung a snaping tirtle on old man Tiltons doorgnob
and rung his bell and he went to the door and
got so badly bit that it took 3 docters to sow him
up. and old J. Albert sed no i dident hear of it
George. is it trew? and father sed i was told
so last nite and i understand other peeple has been
warned and assaulted, and in evry case it has been
a prety meen man. and J. Albert sed well i dont
know what ennyone has got agenst me and if necesery
i shall have a poliseman stay here nites and
father sed it looks to as if it was only the beginning
of sum prety desperit work but if ennything happens