e father will have to join.
jest imagine ennyone ketching us and triing to lick
us when father was round.

i havent stoped laffing yet over it. if enny of
the peeple whitch got pluged ever find out who done
it they will kill us dead. but they wont never find
it out.

well this morning i got up and et my breckfast
and done my choars and went over to Beanys and
got him and we went up to Pewts and had a meating
of the Terible 3 and i told them what father
sed and what the pedler done to hime and that the
pedler was going to pedle there tonite and that it
was our chanct to do good wirk and to maik a naim
for ourselfs. so Pewt took us out to where his
father had set a lot of hens and there was lots of
hens and there was lots of egs that dident hach.
sum of them was so lite that you coodent plug them
verry far and sum of them whitch were heavy had
ded chickings in them. we broke 1 of eech kind
to see whitch smelt the wirst and we coodent tell.
both smelt so bad that we had to go out of the coop
and wait till it aird out. then we pluged 1 of eech
kind agenst the fense. the lits one popped the loudest
and the chicking one spatered the most. they
was 36 left.

Well Beany sed his father was papering sum
rooms in Masonick block in the 2th story for General
Maston and that he was going to Portsmuth
tonite to a masonick meating. so Beany sed he
wood get the kee of the office and we wood go up
there and lock the door and open the windows easy
and not have enny lite birning and we cood see
evrybody in the square and nobody cood see us
and he gessed mister pedler wood think sumbody
had throwed a skunk at him.

well i have forgoten wether i got licked in school
today or not. i dont think i did but i aint sure. i
dident think of ennything but what we was to do
to the pedler and old Francis grabed me and
shook me up and give me 2 or 3 bats and stood
me on the platform for a hour. so i dident get
licked after all. i thougt i wood remember it if
i was licked.

well after supper i studded until haff past seven
and Cele done all of my xamples if i wood let her
read Ratlesnaik Red Head the red Handed after
she had read 2 provirbs. so i let her have it and
after i had coppied the xamples i hipered over to
Beanys. he and Pewt were ready. we devided the
egs and filled our pockets with them and then we
went down town.

when we got there the pedler was standing in his
wagon in the square. and he had a big torchlite and
he was