hollering and holding up things to sell. they
was a crowd of peeple round him men and wimmen
and boys and girls. we went down to masonick
block and went up stairs. we dident meat ennybody
and the stairs were pich dark. we unlocked the door
of the office and went in and opened the winders
eesy. it was lucky we did becaus Beany run into
a table in the dark and broak 2 egs in his pocket.
murder how they smelt. we had to stick our heads
out of the window to breeth. Beany sed what am
i to say to father and mother when they smell me
and find i have got roten eg on my close and Pewt
sed we fill say we were in the crowd and got hit and
nobody will think we pluged ourselfs. i tell you
Pewt is awful smart to think up things. that is
why he gits so few lickings in school and me and
Beany get so menny. so after we had got all the
egs out of our pockets and in litle piles ready and
cood breeth inside we all got ready. the old pedler
had a bottle in his hand and sed now ladies and
gentlemen i have here a bottel of my selibrated
panyseer compounded by the most destinkwished
chemists in Europe and of the purist and most
xpensive drugs and warranted to cure headake, earake,
backake, bellyake, hartake, rumatism, growing
panes, varicose vanes, bunions, corns, ingrowing tonales,
scroffuler, siattikeer, lung fevers, scarlet
feever, meezles, hooping coff mumps and croop.
children cry for it, old maids sy for it, you must
have it. waulk up, run up, gump up, tumble up
ennyway to get up only fetch your money up and
all for 1 doller.

jest as he sed that Pewt let ding with a chicking
eg as hard as he cood. it wood have took old mister
pedler square in the head but jest then he leened
down to take a doller and it went over his head and
took old Mizzery Dirgin who was standing facing
towerds us rite square in the mouth and spatered
all over him. i bet he gumped 9 feet in the air
and then begun to hoop and gag and rushed for the
horse troth and put his head in and soused it round
and the peeple all begun to laff and holler and old
Mizzery gumped up all driping and arested Mike
Prescot for being drunk and begun to drag him off
and Mike held back and fit and old Swane grabed
him to help old Mizzery and we let ding as fast
as we cood and old Swane got one rite between the
sholders and one rite in the back of his head that
popped like a pistol and he let go of Mike and
rushed for the troth and put his head in and while
the old pedler was