hitch was probably one reason why i dident
get licked. i tell you when a feller knows his teecher
is watching for a chanct to snach him balheaded
he has to wauk pretty strate.

this afternoon Pewt had to help his father paint
a fense and Beany went down to Ed Toles and
when Beany is down there i dont go becaus it is ap
to lead to trubble between me and Beany on acount
of Lizzie Tole Eds sister. so when father come
home early on the 2 oh clock trane he had a lait dinner
and we went down to see about getting my boat
up for the winter. so we rew up river to the Eddy
and then rew back. we had to row hard to keep
warm. well when we got back to the worf father
sed less pull the old boat out and we got hold and
pulled her haff way out on the worf and then father
swang her round to get the stirn out and gnocked
me rite into the river with my close on.

gosh it was as cold as a ice and i swum to the
worf and father the pulled me out and jawed me
for being a fool to get in the way when he hadent
told me what he was going to do. aint that jest
like him. well he made me run all the way home
and then took off my close and he rubed me with
a ruf towel that neerly took my hide off. it was
almost as tuf as when they rubed the black off of
me with bristol brick and seesand when i thougt
i was always going to be a niger.

then he give me a glass of hot lemonaid and maid
me go to bed. the lemonaid was all rite but i
haited to go to bed. we was going to have a meating
of the Terible 3 and then we was going down
on the square to hear a peddler sell stuff from a
wagon and a big torchlite. but father woodent let
me go. but he brougt me up a new novil. it was
a ripper. the naim of it is Rattlesnaik Redhead the
Red Handed. we will have to have the meating
of the Terible 3 tomorrow after chirch.

October 26, 186---sunday again and raning hard.
it has raned hard all day. it always ranes sunday
when a feller wants to do sumthing.

none of the folks went to chirch xcept Cele who
is verry religus. she is throug with the palsams
and is reading the provirbs. father asted me if i
gnew what a provirb was and i sed yes it was a
part of speach that modifide virbs ajectives and
other advirbs. then he begun to laff and they all
laffed. ennyway i bet evrybody but father and
mother and Aunt Sarah and Cele dident know. he
sed the provirbs was the wize sayings of old king
Sollerman whitch was suposed to be the wizest man
in the wirld.

fath